Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Within a second zone, ¼ mile wide, the destruction would be only a little less complete. In that area would be Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Hell's Kitchen, the Metropolitan Opera House; the Holland and Queens vehicular tunnels, the Williamsburg Bridge, the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations. Many more buildings would be wrecked by the explosion, and gutted by fire...
...Presbyterian, had gone out to Korea first in 1885 and there married a medical missionary. By 1915, when the Underwoods first opened the gates of Chosen college, Korea had become one of the most Christianized nations of the Orient. In time the new college grew to be the second largest university in Korea. Under the Japanese occupation (1910-45), Chosen and a few other Christian schools like it were the only educational institutions in Korea which kept native Koreans as teachers. It became identified with Korean nationalism...
Goldschmidt and the rest of the field continued without interruption, down through the main streets of Watkins Glen, over a stone bridge in the state park, across railroad tracks, through hazardous short turns, over roads of macadam, concrete, brick and dirt. By the end of the second lap, heavy-footed Erwin Goldschmidt had the lead...
...ever caught him. He won the race by a full minute. His time: i hr. 22 min. for an average speed of 73 m.p.h. Second, for the third year in a row, was Connecticut Sportsman Briggs Cunningham in a Healey-Cadillac...
...racing sons of Barren Collier, onetime Manhattan advertising executive. The second: Miles Collier, winner of last year's Grand Prix...