Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would keep its shipping out of the Mediterranean if Italy went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips had his third meeting of the week with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and, in Washington, President Roosevelt received Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. Benito Mussolini was reported to have sent this message to Franklin Roosevelt: "Does the United States understand my position...
...were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing to evacuate children from London to Clacton-on-Sea. And the Clacton hotel operators' offer to allow one-third off on any day a bomb falls or mine bursts near by, made day before the disaster, presumably still stands...
...continued Dr. Kennedy, is forgetful because his memory tract, the corpus callosum (a belt of fibres connecting the two brain hemispheres), shrinks to one-third its size. And he loses interest in his environment because he is plagued by "sensations from his gut," which his brain is not strong enough to control...
During bloody World War I, Surgeon Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
Jack Knight is a go-getting publisher who doesn't believe in newspaper chains, but seems to be acquiring one. In 1933 he inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. In 1937 he bought the Miami Herald. Last week John Shively Knight acquired his third going paper, the log-year-old Detroit Free Press, Michigan's biggest morning newspaper (circ. 296,-047). The purchase price, though known to be over $3,000,000, remained secret...