Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, instead of curling up, they walloped the Cardinals in the next two, the last time to the roaring tune of 19-6, and rolled out of St. Louis only half a game out of first place. Early this week, the Dodgers stumbled in a game with the third-place Phillies while the Cards were beating the last-place Cubs-and the Dodgers slid to 1½ games behind...
...Yankees saw their lead vanish as Boston drew up into a dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second and the Sox went out in front...
...smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York, I like. You understand...
...heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting to short-sleeved women judged by the doorkeeper insufficiently dressed to enter the basilica. (After the hawker had made friends with the doorman, few prosperous-looking women got to see St. Peter's without first hiring...
...minutes into the third quarter, Tufts Morris sneaked down the let side and beat goalie Batchelder from 20 yards out. But two more Harvard goals insured the game...