Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...northern suburbs of Paris, meanwhile, police rounded up 19 factory workers charged with operating a Communist network for distributing subversive pamphlets. A decree law of Sept. 26 makes illegal "activity having the direct or indirect object of propagating the watchwords emanating from or relating to the Third International" of Moscow. Daily arrests of Communists are now the rule, and French police have made over 11,000 raids on suspects since break of war, have seized as much as two tons of Communist propaganda in a raid...
...last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
Last week in a third-floor room of Bensinger's billiard parlor in Chicago's Loop, chunky, flat-voiced Willie Hoppe, now a balding man of 52, still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come...
...fellow golfers were beginning to wonder what makes Texans so mighty,* Demaret and Mangrum led the parade, with Nelson close on their heels. On the fourth day, when final scores were posted, Texas won by a landslide: Demaret in first place with 280, Mangrum second with 284, Nelson third with 285 ; Harry Cooper tied for fourth with two non-Texans...