Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five incurable difficulties: 1) although Syria is mainly Mohammedan, Lebanon mainly Christian, both have strong, quarrelsome minority groups; 2) Moslem nationalist leaders insist on a unified Syria, instead of two independent states; 3) Turks in the Antioch-Alex-andretta Sanjak, near the Turkish border, demand the creation of a third independent state (TIME, Feb. 15 et ante); 4) Moslem Kurds seize every opportunity to raid Christian villages in the northeast; 5) fierce Druse tribesmen make periodic pillages in the fertile valleys of Lebanon...
...Valeri Chkalov took his place. When the second successful junket was made month later by three other Soviet airmen, Flyer Levanevsky began to be mentioned in dispatches as in jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin's current purges. Last week, however, when the third flight was launched, it appeared that the great Levanevsky was not in the Soviet doghouse at all but had merely been kept under cover for the most ambitious transpolar hop of the summer. He promptly proceeded to bungle...
...lawn bowling is to throw the bowl, which is weighted on one end to make it lopsided, down a green 120 ft. long to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball or "jack." Major tournament play is between teams consisting of four men-lead, second, third, and skip (captain)-each of whom throws two bowls. An opponent's bowl may be knocked away from the jack or a teammate's may be knocked closer. When all the bowls are played and an "end" is completed, it is scored like horseshoes, the closest bowl receiving...
After a police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might...
...with engineers of Dow Chemical Co. (TIME, Dec. 28), drew maps from salt well records showing probable oil structures near Mt. Pleasant. After buying leases on 500,000 Michigan acres the company proceeded to open up one of the big fields which have since made oil Michigan's third most important industry...