Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having lost to Princeton (3-2-0 Ivies) in another 2-1 overtime killer last Saturday, the Crimson will finish either second or third in the Ivies, depending on how the Tigers fare against Cornell later this week...
...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
...Third, I have bones to pick with the 24-hour Science Center guard concept. Because of the volume of daytime traffic, deliveries and classes, a 24-hour guard would be worthless. As an alternate suggestion, I suggest that the guards be posted at about 3:30, when maintenance people generally start to leave and the building becomes quieter...
...third ring, I begin to think that maybe nobody else is home after all. I make a mad dive for the phone, not wanting to have to run upstairs to turn the answering machine off when the fourth ring comes...
Things aren't always so easy, of course. My roommates and I are not always on exactly the same wavelength. It so happens that the pause between rings is exceedingly long in our room. Thus, I often pick up the receiver toward the start of the third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic...