Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...plodding Taft did not deny that trained men were needed, proposed to get them by creating a volunteer corps of 1,250,000 trained reserves. Dug from the files of the New Hampshire Historical Society was a speech by Daniel Webster, opposing "Mr. Monroe's draft" in the third year of the War of 1812. Senators who heard the quoted words of Daniel Webster last week found that changed U. S. circumstances had not greatly altered arguments against conscription. Congressman Webster on Dec. 9, 1814 put his trust in volunteers (who finally won the war). He could not argue...
...task of Franklin Roosevelt in accepting the Third Term nomination was colossal-it was to explain why a move that Washington and Jefferson had thought improper was necessary and right for him. The task of Wendell Willkie's acceptance was almost as great-it was to challenge Franklin Roosevelt without intensifying class and party hostilities, without plunging the U. S. into a desperate political fight over foreign policy, without arousing the bitterness that would weaken U. S. defense. There was a tone to be set for a critical campaign. And there was a huge, hot and widely traveled crowd...
...above them to engage as many British fighters as possible before succeeding bomber waves arrived. The British fighters on "standing patrol" along the Channel met them on two levels, one force to shoot down bombers, one to fight fighters. Often, as the British engaged the Germans, a second and third wave of bombers appeared and more British fighters would rise to attack them. Hitler had set himself to beat Britain to its knees...
...This is subtracted from the $45,000 excess profit, leaving $25,000 for Bracket 3. Forty per cent of this is $10,000. Adding it all up, a company with $45,000 of excess profits would pay a total of $15,500. This works out to just about a third of the total excess profits...
Many a 20th-century writer has shown the influence of the movies. Two who have thus added to the vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...