Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only seven faults in the first phase of the competition which required two riders to ride two horses each. Second night the U. S. riders held their lead with 16 faults, though they performed badly (nine faults) in the pair-jumping which was won by the Irish Free State. Third and final night the U. S. riders, out to protect their slim lead, were charged with twelve faults in the team jumping. The Canadian and Belgian teams tied with eight faults each, and Belgium was awarded first place on the flip of a coin. When the final scores were totaled...
...facts that: 1) Pittsburgh had been undefeated this season, 2) Notre Dame had defeated Navy and fearsome Minnesota, 3) Notre Dame had un ceremoniously dropped Pittsburgh from future football schedules, combined to make the Pitt-Notre Dame game the most important of the week. At the end of the third period Notre Dame, although consistently outplayed, had a 6-to-0 lead. In the fourth period the weary Notre Dame defense collapsed. Pittsburgh's Goldberg, Stebbins & Patrick swiftly marched to three touchdowns and Souchak unerringly kicked each extra point. Score...
...fair-to-middling hockey brawls, one of which nearly cost him his arm. While coaching hockey at Milton Academy a decade ago, he trained Barry Wood who later became All-America quarterback at Harvard. As Boston University's baseball coach, he immortalized himself by switching Mickey Cochrane from third baseman to catcher. Since the Blackhawks, who won the world's championship Stanley Cup in 1934, were last year the lowest scoring team in the league, Bill Stewart should have started work on them early in October, but he was busy umpiring the World Series...
...struggling season she was still being told that she had "no voice." With occasional articles, a book of memoirs, she managed to keep her foot in the door. Last winter in Vienna Lotte Lehmann wedged her way right through with a first novel.- With her book now in its third edition in Austria, translated into Italian, French and Czech, 35-year-old Novelist Lehmann last week made her debut in the U. S. A love story, in the same vein as Marcia Davenport's best-selling Of Lena Geyer, Mine Lehmann's story attempts no coloratura flights...
...voyage resolved itself into a game of mutinous cat-&-mouse, with starvation, disease and storms putting in their savage claws. When the big mutiny broke out at Bay St. Julien. Magellan made a real killing. He drew and quartered one Spanish captain, decapitated the second, marooned the third. Eight seamen were hung, 40 others imprisoned without food. For their edification Magellan offered the chained exhibit of a big friendly savage who. before he starved to death three weeks later, had almost chewed himself out of his shackles. When Magellan's cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard...