Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully shuffling his personnel, coach Bill Brooks used his available talent for successful results. Dick Seaton won the 220-yard freestyle and Koni Ulbrich took two third places in the freestyle sprints. In the 200-yard breast-stroke Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney swept first and second and the medley relay team of Gary Pildner, Stanley, Hammond, and Dave Seaton kept a winning distance ahead of the Indians...
Battling against the formidable combination of Yale strength and injuries to key Crimson performers, the varsity track squad put on a tremendous display of courage and perseverance before losing to the Bulldogs, 72 1/3 to 55 2/3, last Saturday at New Haven. Princeton was a distant third with nine points...
...balanced-budget forces were led by President Eisenhower, persuading Republicans, buttonholing his friends, conferring in friendly fashion over whisky and soda with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn at the White House. At his third weekly press conference in a row, the President read a long, prepared statement urging fiscal responsibility: "I don't believe that we should have higher taxes, and I do not believe that the U.S. wants higher taxes. That means to me living within your income...
Last week, with Franke's promotion official, disappointed Jim Smith went home to Aspen, Colo. Gates prepared to leave June 1, after the Navy's 1960 budget passes. Last week also a third disappointed man popped up. Grieved was G.O.P. Chairman Alcorn. who had done no more than listen to congressional advice, had been clobbered in print as the man who put the finger on Independent Republican Smith...
...orange, blue and aluminum Flagship New York, dutifully obeyed the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign. The brand-new four-engine turboprop Electra had more than lived up to its billing: normal flight time from Chicago at the Electra's 400-m.p.h. cruising speed had been sliced a third. And the big aircraft had winged 713 miles eastward through almost steady rain at 21,000 ft. with barely a bump...