Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Spain, built a great armada for the try, but it got wrecked by battle and storm near the British coasts. The second, Napoleon, threatened from Boulogne in 1805, but his inept Navy and his elaborate feint to draw the British Navy off to the West Indies failed miserably. The third, Hitler, last week put out preliminary feelers over southeast England. Some chickens, a pony, a cow and two heifers were the first victims...
...told A. V. A. C. had 75 men, 66 Chevrolets at the front last week, including one donated by the New York Stock Exchange, another by the Broadway cast of Life With Father. Forty-four more A. V. A. C. ambulances are in France, will soon go into action. Third such unit was the Anglo-American Ambulance Corps of Cannes, which though under Lord Derby's presidency was sparked by two lively Americans. Philip Christopher Kauffman (whose grandfather helped found the Washington Star) and Francis James, who also used to live in Washington...
...work," said Exile Trotsky. It was the third attempt on his life since he reached Mexico three years...
...Samuel Reshevsky, for the third consecutive time: the biennial tournament for the American Chess championship; in Manhattan; after an aside to a friend, acknowledging his opponent Reuben Fine's opportunity to win in the next few moves. Fine let the chance slip, the game was drawn, all Reshevsky needed, with his half-point lead, to keep the championship...
Another famed modern helicopter man is a shy, voluble, fringe-haired Russian, Igor Sikorsky (now a U. S. citizen). By 1910 he had made his third vertical-lift machine, found that it would lift itself but balked at carrying a load. Like many another helicopterphile, Igor Sikorsky soon sideslipped into airplane design. Last week, having completed the design of a new four-motored ocean clipper for American Export Airlines, Igor Sikorsky made his first public flight in a helicopter, 20 years after his earlier contraption had balked...