Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
Last week it was the Biscuit and none other who attracted a record crowd to Santa Anita's magnificent track. Could Seabiscuit win the Hundred Grand in his third try? Could he, after a year on the farm,* beat twelve of the country's fastest thoroughbreds? He had outrun a classy field the previous week in a tune-up race. But this time the Biscuit was assigned top weight of 130 lbs., six lbs. more than he carried the week before and 16 to 20 lbs. more than most of his fleet footed rivals...
...hardest to locate were neutral dictions without noticeable peculiarities-what the investigators called "generalized American speech." The listeners liked best a speaker (not Pennsylvania Dutch) from Lancaster, Pa., voted second place to one from Syracuse, N. Y.-both good examples of neutral, generalized diction. A speaker from Boston won third choice. But though he gave himself away by saying "grahss" (grass), "ahsk" (ask) and "look heah," few listeners placed him correctly...
...broke up into major pieces. British Harold Jeffreys favored an actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance as they veered away from each other. Other theorists supposed that the sun had originally been a double star, that an intruding third star had carried away the sun's companion but had left behind enough debris for planet-building...
...better schooling) raised their I.Q.s. Psychologist Robert Ladd Thorndike (son of famed Edward Lee Thorndike) had examined the records of some 1,100 children in three famed progressive schools (Horace Mann, Lincoln, Ethical Culture), found that in two schools children's I.Q.s were static, but in the third (unidentified) there was an average I.Q. gain of more than six points...