Word: third-class
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...burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...
...candidate does not become so involved in special scholarship through the writing of an honors thesis. A candidate may take his degree with distinction by achieving an average of 70 per cent or better on all the public exams, a "first-class" with 60 per cent or better, "second-class" with 50 per cent or better, "third-class" with 40 per cent or better. An average of under 40 per cent means failure. This low scale does not necessarily mean lower standards. The all-India examinations are reputedly difficult and certainly very competitive...
...crosses the ocean on a charter flight, not a luxury liner, carries no steamer trunk but a single (generally battered) suitcase, and sometimes gets along on a knapsack. He travels in a Volkswagen (also generally battered) or a secondhand scooter, or he hitchhikes. He will stay in hostels or third-class hotels but prefers to bed down in a sleeping bag, never cares what his food is cooked in so long as it is native to the country he is in. The oldtime tourist still holes up at the Ritz and orders three-star meals, but he is vastly outranked...
Until 1908, the U.S. was in Vatican eyes still technically a mission land, and even after that, to many Protestants, Catholicism remained a second-class faith for third-class citizens-the Irish, Polish, German, Hungarian and Italian immigrants who brought their religion with them in the steerage. Now Roman Catholicism has become by far the nation's largest and richest Christian denomination. The latest edition of the Official Catholic Directory says that there are 44.8 million Roman Catholics in the U.S. Actually, there may be 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more than that, for, as one bishop...
...build a bomb without adequate resources might lose its pants. Nevertheless, said Chen, sounding like an echo of Charles de Gaulle, "at the risk of losing our pants, we are determined to go ahead and build our own atomic bombs. Otherwise we will end up as a second-or third-class nation...