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Word: thirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years to the day after the Third Reich surrendered the bloody remnants of its arrogance and power to the Allies, German delegates at Bonn last week adopted a democratic constitution for the 46 million people of Western Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Milestone at Bonn | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said, "five, ten men against a single gun. What could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Will They Hurt Us? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Gripes in B.A. As Argentina's postwar trade boom slowed down (so far this year, exports are about one-third of 1948's), Dodero complained that the government's state-trading policies were at fault. Despite their long friendship, Perón paid him no heed. Instead, he made him a take-itor-leave-it offer to sell out to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Abdication of a Tycoon | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...other trial heat features second-seeded Yale, third-seeded Princeton, MIT, Columbia, and Cornell...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Crews Favored for Eastern Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...Springfield game will also be interesting for another reason; it will be the third game this year in which the outcome has not been known in advance. The Varsity has lost the only other games in this category (Penn and Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ten To Do Battle At Springfield | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

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