Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Century, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, Egypt wrote to a colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
Last week three U. S. Senators, all Democrats, charged their Administration with spending money to ridicule them. The offender was the WPA's Federal Theatre production about slum clearance, ". . . one third of a nation'' (TIME, Jan. 31). The offense was casting Senators Andrews of Florida, Byrd of Virginia and Tydings of Maryland as mild critics of the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill. The Senators complained that their impersonators on the stage called forth boos & hisses. As their remarks came straight out of the Congressional Record, they admitted they had not been misquoted, but insisted they were not quoted...
...Psychical Research, has remained faithful to Margery. Last week the A. S. P. R. announced the results of clairvoyance tests made with Margery, using the honor cards of an ordinary deck.* In the first series of 25 she got 22 right. In the second, all 25 right. In the third, 24 out of 25. In the fourth, all 25. Total score...
Last week came the third set in this tennis match of opposing price policies: In Washington on the same day 1) the F. T. C. appealed to the Supreme Court to continue in effect its original order to Goodyear as a preventive to further price discrimination and 2) Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau beamed at the discovery that the bids for a new $1,500,000 Government tire&tube contract differed widely. Said he: "I am glad to see signs of competition in the tire bids, and I hope the practice will be extended to other merchandise purchased...
...Johns at second, Dave Shean at third or in left field, Bob Gannett, right-fielder, and Dick Grondahl, utility infielder will form, along with Lupien, the nucleus of this year's team. With the exception of Dick Walsh, the entire mound staff of a year ago is returning, but the catcher's berth is wide open...