Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined in 1929, the Columbus filled in with her two big sisters for the transatlantic busy season, began her famed winter cruises...
...second night, with Society's annual mass raid over for the year, Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, first of the forthcoming three-opera "Strauss cycle," provided Soprano Lotte Lehmann with one of her most famous and mellowest roles, that of the absent Field Marshal's wife. On the third night debuts began...
...typical of N. A. M.'s painfully self-conscious course in self-improvement, undertaken in its efforts to school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the usual two days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility...
...public mind N.A.M. has always been identified by two consistent policies-high tariff and open shop. In recent years these two have been almost submerged by the rise of a third, if unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Last week, all activities in the skiing world were pointed up when a dozen European experts, imported to teach U. S. skiers, demonstrated their skill at Boston's third annual indoor Winter Sports Show, and railroads throughout the nation simultaneously announced the schedules of this season's ski trains...