Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Guise, 66, refugee for 66 years, must have known what was up. For bidden by law to set foot within the Third Republic, and normally resident at Manoir d'Anjou, Belgium, the Bourbon pretender to France's vacant throne turned up this week in Morocco...
Last week France met German invasion for the third time in a life span, met it with traditional realism, rhetoric and resourcefulness. To a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies death-serious Premier Paul Reynaud said: "Hitler wants to win the war in two months. If he fails he is lost and he knows it. ... We are perfectly aware of the danger. We know the days, weeks and months coming now will determine the centuries to come. . . . We must not content ourselves with hope and words. Our soldiers are fighting and French blood is flowing. . . . Our lives count for nothing...
...third of China's undergraduates rallied in the hills of North China and organized a guerrilla army, as China fought for its life, the Chinese Government calmly laid plans for China's future. Of coolie cannon fodder it had a plenty, but in all China there were only a few hundred mechanics, a few dozen engineers, few doctors, few scientists. The hope of China's survival lay in such trained men. In that first summer of the war, China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions...
...universities brought to western China-a wilderness before they arrived-medical facilities, new manners, new dress, new farming methods, reading and writing (since 1938 nearly 50,000,000 Chinese have been taught to read and write). Their students, of whom a third are entirely supported by the Government, live in bamboo and mud huts, 16 boys or eight girls sleeping in a single room. They eat boiled cabbage, bean soup, a few other vegetables, often suffer from acute undernourishment. They do their own laundry, are awakened by bugles at 5 a.m. in order to make the most of daylight, save...
...Rutgers' varsity eight: the second annual Dad Vail Regatta, No. 1 rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island...