Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran a poor third in the four-way race, was rebuffed but undaunted. Said he: "I am going to sit on the sidelines and watch the people suffer for their mistake. May God have mercy on Galveston...
...third chunk of Adams House scholarship is a very readable consideration of factors in the success of Mormonism. Bryce Nelson concludes that Mormon unity, not merely as a sect, but as a people, led to their efflorescence in Utah's Zion and throughout the United States. The analogy with the Jewish people is drawn several times and points of comparison are emphasized. Nelson demonstrates that the Mormons have successfully preserved two identities--the ethnic-religious one of the Latter-day Saints, and the wider one of participation in American culture...
...They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to the students;" second, "that the students of the Annex should have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging to the University than they now enjoy;" and third, "that the students should receive their degrees from the University...
...Museum does have new installations on the first floor and the third floor. These should serve as models for all future changes. The cases are lit from inside by good strong spotlighting; their labels are clear and consise, and informative essays are conveniently placed. They are admirably anthropological in nature: the viewer really gets an idea of Mayan culture after studying the exhibit...
...even in these renovated areas, much classification and labelling needs to be done. The casts of the marvelous steles found at Copan are barley visible in the gloom of the end of the third-floor hallway. The public is naturally only mystified by the great casts of which many are unidentified and none is explained by an easily legible descriptive essay...