Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME's Welsh-born teletypesetter broke the Welsh jawbreaker correctly-after the third "y" (which is "the" in Welsh). It could also have been broken after the second...
...Unanimously confirmed the President's appointment of New Dealing, 62-year-old Ernest Gruening to a third four-year term as Governor of Alaska. The Senate's action came after two months' delay and was a triumph for a planeload of Alaskans who flew to Washington to defend him against attacks inspired by the territory's sourdough millionaire, Republican "Cap" Austin Lathrop of Fairbanks...
...rest of the team breaks down into a competition between Tim wise and Al Switzer for the regular first base job, a four-way scramble for the right field berth, and a fight between Bill Rickey and Charlie Cabot to see if Henry Young plays short with Hickey at third or third with Cabot at short...
Having started Wise and Hickey against MIT, Samborski will probably use Switzer at first and Cabot at short (with Young at third in place of Hickey) in today's game...
...volt transformers to carry the added load of the Physics Lab's cyclotron. But the most spectacular of the department's functions is the heating of Harvard buildings. Steam for over 180 buildings is brought from the Cambridge Electric Light Co. through two 19-inch pipes while a third one carries returning water. These pipes run through four miles of underground tunnels...