Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...protests, saw the strike settled two weeks later. As an active head of the Free Press he plans to nurse it gently from a rock-ribbed, standpat Republicanism to a more Independent demeanor, for he likes to be free to jump in any political direction, favors the Third Term in a mild...
...paintings over the high altar-Marie Euphrasia Pelletier, French foundress of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1796-1868), Gemma Galgani, Italian stigmatist and mystic (1878-1903). Thrice the cardinals begged the Pope to grant the canonization. Twice the Pope told all to pray for God's guidance. Third time he declared the petitions granted. Silver trumpets blew, the choir burst into a mighty Te Detim, and all the bells of Rome rang...
...embarkation of chain gangs: "Early this morning a number of boys left . . . for an extended camping trip. Incidental to the camping, a few problems in highway construction will be worked out." Quipped he in a recent commentary on outside events: "I see where President Roosevelt is seeking a third term. I can't see why. I've had two and that's enough...
...mind on the two most exciting spring games (baseball and politics), Prairie Editor William Allen White, Republican, turned to Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt during a dinner in her honor, declared: "My dear, I don't care if he runs for the third or fourth term so long as he lets you run the bases...
...several minutes before the dumfounded onlookers recovered their voices. Few had given Gallahadion even an outside chance to finish second or third. He was a colt who had never finished better than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron...