Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in at the plate, Joe DiMaggio struck out. Then Pitcher Allie Reynolds walked three Red Sox in a row and Relief Pitcher Joe Page walked two more. By the time the hitting-and-walking uprising was put down, the Red Sox were four runs ahead. His third time up, Joe DiMaggio doubled; Slowly, the Yankees began to nibble away at the Red Sox lead. Left-hander Page, getting a grip on himself, said: "Whenever I got a little tired, I looked at that guy [DiMaggio] and said to myself, 'If he can play the way he feels...
...class than the directions to College Hall . . . And we realize what a hard year the first one is. But all good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine and earlier in the summer he's had in Minnesota a fishing trip, we're told. Together the three jaunts lasted well over two months, ample, even for a freshman...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
Archie, the dimwitted, malapropped manager of Duffy's Tavern, has never been known to his Third Avenue customers or his nationwide radio audience as a particularly fast man with a buck. But by last week, when Duffy's Tavern (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC) returned to the air, it was clear that Archie was under the smartest kind of management. Rasp-voiced Ed Gardner, who plays Archie and produces the program, had accomplished the modern miracle of getting out of the reach of the tax collector...
Though far from the comforting rumble of the Third Avenue "el," Gardner is not likely to become homesick. Under the new law, 50 U.S. companies (chinaware, leather goods, textiles) have already moved to Puerto Rico and more are expected by boat and plane...