Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Lieut. Jay Gardner sold his furniture, sent his wife and children off to live with his parents in Topeka. Lieut. William Matthews trained a man to take his civilian job and stood by. So did the rest of the 152 reservists in the 236th Fighter Squadron. Last week a second notice came through: the squadron would not be called to active duty after...
Losses in Congressmen-Pennsylvania, 3; Missouri, Oklahoma, New York, 2; and one each for Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. New York's delegation will still be the biggest, with 43; California, by its gain, and Pennsylvania, by its loss, will be tied for second biggest, with 30 Congressmen each...
...urged, diddling him out of his savings and earnings at the rate of 19/6 in the ?, plus the Death Duties. In Ireland, he might have been reduced to the alcoholism which had frightened him as a child in the life of his father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...National Guard. In scores of sharp, bloody little battles, the guardsmen hunted down the terrorists with bazookas, tanks and planes. Desperate and determined as they were, the rebels were no match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously...
Meanwhile, at Philadelphia, unbeaten Army broke loose in the second half to overrun a powerful Penn team (28-13), stretch its undefeated string to 26 straight, and vindicate those who have been insisting all along that the Cadets are the best team in the land...