Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...more than win him the first heat. It also set a heat record with an average of 80.1 m.p.h., while four of the eight starters were being forced out with mechanical trouble under the punishing pace. My Sweetie and Tempo VI were among the survivors, and in the second heat My Sweetie forged into a long lead. Then its engine caught fire, and Slo-Mo-Shun again rocketed home first, with an average of 80.9 m.p.h...
...three-year-old paddling around the salty Swan River near Perth, Australia, Marshall showed an early liking for water, has made it a second home ever since. In 1946, at the age of 16, he perfected his stroke under ace Australian Coach Tom Donnet. In the 1948 Olympics in London, Marshall placed second in the 1,500-meter event. It was at that point that the 152-Ib. youngster met famed Yale Swimming Coach Bob Kiphuth, decided...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
...first time, an outstanding Hollywood star has made a movie designed especially for television. Cowboy Hero Gene Autry, second most popular western actor in the U.S.,*has finished six half-hour westerns for weekly release on CBS-TV. He plans to chain-produce at least 20 more in the next year...
...saved," the prophetic passages of the Bible took on a new importance, and here & there the conviction sprang up that the time for Christ's return was close at hand. The Seventh Day Adventists, so-called because they celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), set no date for the second coming, and they avoided a set creed. But Adventists adhere to a strict code: no unnecessary work on the Sabbath, no bearing arms (though they will serve in noncombat branches in wartime), and plenty of fervent evangelizing...