Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody these days seems to be concentrating on the "little man." Swimming has its little man too--he is the unsung plugger who may be depended upon the take second or third place in a meet. Too often, the crowd at a swimming meet is too anxious to applaud the brilliant winner of first place; the man who tracks a record every week. But actually, many of the greatest thrills during an aquatic evening are provided by the second and third place men fighting it out for the unheralded honors...
...National Education Association's Dr. Howard Dawson: With one-third of the nation's children, the 14 Southern States account for only one-sixth of the nation's expenditure for public education...
...Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1917, barely 25 miles from his birthplace he was arrested for the third time because a deputy sheriff was suspicious of the foreign stickers on his luggage. After the war, Oliver Carmichael taught French in a Birmingham high school, was nosed out as a candidate for Congress in 1920, became president of Alabama (Women's) College (1926-35), then went to Vanderbilt...
...About a third of all retail sales-some $13,000,000,000 out of 1937's $40,000,000,000-are made on credit. Two-thirds of these are on charge accounts, the rest, almost to $5,000,000,000, on installments...
Belbenoit's third and fourth abortive escapes were financed with the money paid him by Authoress Blair Niles. It was seven years before he made his successful fifth escape. Again he got an Indian dugout, with five fellow-fugitives headed for the U. S. Fourteen days later, lucky to be only half dead, they reached Trinidad. The sympathetic British took them in, gave them a new boat, told them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit...