Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of last week's crucial series, Our Boys had split a double-header with the Cards. The second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games...
When the crop came to market late this summer, prices staggered "under the surplus. By September 8, farmers were in a funk; the bellowing auctioneers were knocking down the tobacco at 14½?. Then Britain's big Imperial Tobacco Co., which normally buys a third of the flue-cured crop, stepped out of the market. For one more week the farmers hung on and watched their crops going at ever lower prices. When prices broke through 11? (half of last year's price), they desperately closed the markets...
...Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages of some 25 periodicals (from the American Girl to the Atlantic Monthly)-all crowned with a face (see cut) that would take some women to Hollywood...
...third quarter Cowen, fullback for Exeter, scored on a two-yard back. Another determined Exeter drive was climaxed by Haslan's line plunge over the touchdown stripe, while the Stahleymen got another tally when McNicol again completed an serial, this time to Calch Loring. Hayes' spectacular dash in the final frame eliminated Crimson hopes for victory...
...warring powers, England and Germany, both painfully eager to end the fight after the first preliminary round. It would be the saddest event in all history if their peace hopes were frustrated merely because neither is in a position to make direct overtures. Obviously there must be a third power to bring them together, and just as obviously, the President of the United States is in the most logical position...