Word: third
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...Acis and Galatea" is the third opera given by the Lowell House Musical Society. The first was Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," which was the Boston debut of that opera. Last year the Society presented the American premiere of the Dryden-Purcell dramatic opera, "King Arthur." This is the first year that a dance group from Wellesley has been included in the cast...
Galen L. Stone of Milton Academy and Brookline was second in the competition, and Edward M. Tuckerman of Brook School and Boston was third. All three men will compete for varsity manager next year...
...iron plant at Vancouver, Wash., using 6,000 kilowatts the first year (1940-41), 30,000 thereafter. That hiked Bonneville's power contracts (fattened by agreements with municipalities) to 75% of present, 13% of ultimate capacity. Ready for the dotted line last week was a third industrial power user: a chemical maker with a hankering for an initial 2,000 kilowatts...
...South took this very hard, feared the permanent loss of a vital market for its No. 2 cash crop, of which Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd. usually bought as much as a third. The 1939 tobacco price was saved from ruin when Commodity Credit Corp. spent some $30,000,000 taking the British share off the auctions. But the South could not expect that much help every year...
...raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis are slaughtered. This, however, does not seem to solve the Indian problem. Hunger, fatigue, other Indians, do for Rogers' Rangers what the Abenakis cannot. Only a third of the expedition ever gets back...