Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three-day event, each contestant fired 468 arrows at distances from 40 to 100 yards (two York and two American rounds). Each shot was the equivalent of lifting 44 to 52 Ib.-average "weight...
...will tell the truth on big things, often lie about little ones. The police had a tight case against a holdup suspect. Although they didn't need it to convict, they introduced the man's own signed confession, secured at police headquarters. Fifteen police denied any third-degree methods. Liebowitz asked an old deputy chief inspector on the stand: "How long have you been a police officer?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever beat up a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, never." "Did you ever see a policeman beat a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, I never...
...speculator is Son Laurance, who received third place in a poll for the "most pious" member of his class at Princeton. He works in his father's office in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center along with three of his brothers. Brother John D. Ill helps on Rockefeller policies. Brother Nelson, supposed to have been the apple of his grandfather's eye, specializes in real estate. Brother Winthrop is the first Rockefeller to take a first-hand interest in oil since the dynasty was founded. Having just completed a year of postgraduate work at Harvard, young Brother David...
...lonely traveler dreading my first Remarked, "I am all my second. My third is coming, I fear the worst, on a friendly second I reckoned." And then a smile o'er his features stole For he heard the perfect voice of my whole...
...puzzle, not a surrealist limerick, the foregoing verse is a sample of the 50 "charades" contained in this second book of poems by the famed, well-beloved 77-year-old senior master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The whole word, obtained by guessing the first, second and third syllables, is "nightingale," but the sly author makes his readers work even harder to be sure of this. His 50 answers at the back of the book are written in cryptograms, and "nightingale" reads ezulnzeuowr...