Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...
...figures on actual attendance at services reveal that professed need for synagogue membership does not entail participation. Among the Orthodox who were polled about a third attend services weekly or twice a month; the Conservatives' figures show that about 85 per cent attend synagogue no more than "several times a year, while among the Reform Jews the figure is over 90 per cent...
Johnson pitched perhaps the finest game of his college career, holding the Elis to just five hits, and allowing only one baserunner to get as far as third...
Thus, whereas only a twelfth of Harvard's undergraduates, describe their political temperament as "radical" --judging from the questionnaire--over a seventh support "full socialization of all industries," more than a fifth favor socialization of the medical profession, and nearly a third believe that the Federal government should own and operate all basic industries, such as steel and railroads. In a society that accepts such phrases as "free competition" and "private enterprise" as its conventional rhetoric, it is curious to find extensive support--even among students--for socialization and similar radical proposals...
Much the same third that favor basic socialization also support "immediate unilateral suspension of atomic tests" by the United States (hence the little green stickers on Vespa fenders: Halt Bomb Tests), and "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation...