Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...
Last week CBS's best "prestige program," Columbia Workshop, celebrated its third birthday on the air by inaugurating a Festival (Thursdays, 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.) of 13 broadcasts. Eight are the pick of the 140 radio plays the Workshop has done since its beginning. Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan...
...judges' eyes pop. In the press, he lifted 270 Ibs., for a new U. S. record. In the snatch, he raised 280 Ibs., for another U. S. record. When his score was tallied, Bar Bellman Stanko not only won the U. S. heavyweight championship but broke a third U. S. record with a total...
...Finnish Paavo Nurmi was the world's greatest distance runner, Yankee Babe Ruth cracked out his 416th home run, Bobby Jones won his third national amateur championship and Jack Dempsey was training for a return match with Champion Gene Tunney. That year a brown-eyed little Norwegian girl named Sonja Henie, having won her first world's championship, was about to win her first Olympic crown. For the comparatively few who took an interest in skating, she was the most famous woman skater in the world...
...world. In competition no longer, at 29 she was a greater box-office name, a more compelling magnet for crowds than ever before. She was not only, in Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly...