Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thirteen newspapermen, selected from 221 applicants in 39 states, have invaded Cambridge to embark on the third year of Harvard's unique $1,000,000 attempt "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States...
Headed by Captain Langdon Durwell, third pisco winner in last year's heptagonal meet, fifty varsity and freshman harriers reported to Coach Jaakko Mikkola yesterday afternoon for the first official cross country practice of the season...
...Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...
...engineers claim that one-third of the Army's strategic and critical materials are in TVA mountains. To make sure that no TVA assets are overlooked, David Lilienthal keeps a staff of researchers hard at work. Last week he announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...
...same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little people who mainly populate the earth, his deep, constantly iterated, constantly irritated concern for his integrity as man and artist. Above all, there is Thomas Wolfe's cosmic sense of Thomas...