Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July, and the third Edinburgh Festival, in the island's stateliest city, to be celebrated in August...
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
Furthermore, brokers' own commission rates, now the highest in history, might be an added drag on the market. In a dull market, profits of even a single point had been hard to make. When made, around a third of a point of the profit on a 100-share transaction in a cheap ($10) stock went for buying & selling commissions...
...Guthrie, third string lineman for one month last fall, has been signed by the Chicago Bears of the National Football league, it was announced Friday...
Although two Yale men gained the two best total times in the meet, Harvard was able to win by placing men third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth out of the ten best times in a field of 21 entries...