Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...temper of U.S. reaction was shown in Congress, where both houses unanimously voted posthumous decorations for the Privateer crew members. And the hollowness of the Russian accusations seemed to be established further by the finding of a second rubber life raft, of the type issued to the Privateer, picked up by a Swedish ship in the Baltic. The raft showed evidences of having been blasted on the water by high-powered airborne projectiles...
Crippled, propped, cushioned and controlled though it is, the British economy is still the second most productive industrial machine in the Western world. It is as superior to the wrecked or backward economies of France and Germany as ours is to it ... Britain's economy is still predominantly private, autonomous and unpredictable, the sum of many individual business decisions just...
Geoff Tootell, Don Trimble, Al Wilson, and Charlie Keith should lower the boom early in the meet with the shot put, discus, and javelin. Keith threw the javelin over 182 feet last Saturday, but the Crusaders' George Gallogly has bettered 170 and can be second. BU's Irving Black and Jim Lang ought to finish one-two over Dick Rubin with the Hammer...
Carter will take the broad jump, with Court Ellis second, and Kelley third. Kelley and Ellis can very well give the Crimson's Dick Barwise trouble, with a three-way tie at six feet a possibility in the high jump...
...Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details together with much of a plot, and relies on the second rate songs of his cowboy chorus to fill in the gaps. When Mr. Ford, like the little girl, is good he is very very good, but in "Wagonmaster" he is horrid...