Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trade treaties had ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late to get a campaign organized; the war had made a Third Term virtually certain; no businessman had a chance against the glamor of Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, these stubborn citizens still believed that Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President...
...ordinary gauze packs. "In many instances," he continued, "salt pork promptly stopped bleeding after other methods had failed. ... It seems to have the property of preventing recurrence. ... I have used it in controlling violent hemorrhage occurring with the onset of measles, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever, and during the third stage of labor...
...annual appropriations from the Rockefellers' General Education Board. In 1936 the Board, which had started to distribute its capital gave the Institute a final lump-sum endowment of $2,000,000. The Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however, has a party at Gizeh in Egypt, where it has labored continuously for 35 years, and where it unearthed among other treasures the gold-cased furniture...
Without so much as a grunt of compunction, Seminole Indians of eastern Oklahoma re-elected Chief Estahakee (in private life, Farmer George Jones of Wewoka, Okla.) to a third term...
...second age, of the human world, is at hand, he recalls that Christ compared such catastrophes to the first leaves of a fig tree, by which men know that summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort may perhaps be pardoned. But he who finds in it mere idiocy may perhaps be mistaken...