Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were these pathetic "expatriates"? The Szeklers (in Hungarian, Szekely, pronounced roughly Sáy-Kaiy)* are in no sense Hungarian expatriates. They make up less than one third of Transylvania's population (3,400,000). Most of them settled in Transylvania and the Banat on their way into Europe from Asia in the Ninth Century, before there was any such thing as a Hungary. Through most of their history they have had no more desire to be affiliated with Hungary than with Rumania...
Last week those troubles were very much in evidence. For the third week in succession criticism (as rare in recent Japan as whales in the Mississippi) broke out in the Diet. Three weeks ago Takao Saito said the country was tired of war. Then Kiroku Oguchi said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances...
...Battle of Punta del Este, steaming home under her own power after being patched up in the Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh, praised the action...
...only was Katharine Dewey the first woman ever to win the national championship, but her time for the third heat was only 27/100 of a second over the record for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, one of the world's fastest. Only Switzerland's St. Moritz is faster...
Arrested by immigration officers was Prince Nicholas Obolensky, chess player, art lecturer and man-about-Manhattan (third cousin of Vincent Astor's ex-brother-in-law, Prince Serge Obolensky), for overstaying his welcome...