Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case one of the parties to this treaty should become the object of warlike acts by a third power, the other power will in no way support this third power...
...wreckage in a spectacle unprecedented: bits of old illusions, old securities, old trusts-pieces of Communist doctrine-crumbling fragments of Nazi propaganda-hopeful beliefs of humble people, with here & there a genuine casualty-the time-tested and best methods of dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering...
...England's pert Pam Barton, 22 and already twice British golf champion, who won the U. S. title three years ago and looked as if she were going to repeat until she met New Jersey's slick-putting Charlotte Glutting in the third round...
...game. Willowy, green-eyed Dot Kirby was women's champion of Georgia at 13, champion of the South at 17, had twice reached the second round of the National. Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson was champion of the South at 15, won the Texas championship four times, reached the third round of the National last year...
...last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying to change their social status...