Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Running 62 yards against a whipping wind, undefeated Dartmouth's Bill Hutchinson scored against undefeated Harvard in the first quarter. Just after it began to rain in the third quarter he ran 55 yards for another touchdown. Before the game ended Dartmouth's Hutchinson had scored again, this time in a heavy fog and ankle-deep mud. Score...
...Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery of the Louvre given to 19th Century French artists. To superficial moderns these big canvases, full of exotic or heroic action, may seem uncongenial, but they and the 1,500-page Journal have been deeply esteemed and studied by almost every...
...William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography...
...route, he stopped at a garage, sold the car for $500, set himself up selling cars on his $200 profit. In 1927 he sold over 2,000 cars in Tampa. By 1929 he was selling 5,000 a year. Intrigued by Austin in 1932, he soon placed Austin third of all cars in Florida sales. Expanding nationally and into other lines, he soon had branches and warehouses all over...
Narrative of The Garden of Adonis is as involved as the writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since...