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Word: thirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continent. About the third millennium B.C. he rebelled against her, seizing her sacred hammer or ax or sickle, and is credited in some versions of the myth with having seduced her ; afterwards he set himself up as an authoritarian, patriarchal Thunder-god and kept her in subjection. His tragi-comic destiny (as appears in the poem) is to grow senile and be demoted to a mere God of Revels, a greasy Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...cold-eyed man with a passion for obscurity. His name usually gets into public print only once a year, when the U.S. Treasury lists him as one of the highest-paid executives in the , U.S. The latest list put his salary & bonus in 1946 at $440,542, third in the payments so far reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Loft | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...freshman parleyed four hits, four walks, and three Bruin errors into a single run in the second inning and a pair in the fourth. The hits were equally divided between second baseman Win Carduff, third baseman Bill Hickey, right fielder Bobby Thompson, and first baseman Tim Wise. Wise's triple was the Crimson's only extra base knock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Wins Three Contests, Loses Lacrosse Game | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Pitcher Jack Donelan's faultless control carried the undefeated freshman baseball team to a 3 to 2 to win over the Brown freshman Saturday at Soldiers Field for its third straight victory in four starts. The game was called in the second half of the eighth inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Wins Three Contests, Loses Lacrosse Game | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

This afternoon at Amherst the team will play its third game of the week, and chances are that it will be the toughest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Downs BC, 9-0 Without Dropping any Sets | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

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