Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...centre span (2,800 ft.) is the third longest in the world. Longer: George Washington (3,500) across the Hudson at Manhattan, Golden Gate (4,200) at San Francisco...
...been used in world warfare since Italian troops spewed it against barefooted Ethiopian warriors in 1936 (reported fatalities about 500). Yet gas is a potent weapon (it caused more than 1,000,000 of the 37,513,886 casualties of World War I, was responsible for about one-third of all A. E. F. hospital cases), may still be used in World...
...freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of Rayville without a life belt. Unable to swim, he yelled through the darkness to his mates but they could not find him. The mine blew the City of Rayville's nose off. Survivors kept bits of metal...
Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Amherst, to name a few, require neither signing nor chaperones. It was only after the 1936 tempest that Crimson undergraduates were able to remove a ruling that at least two women had to be present in a room. Not much better is the current "third person," who usually turns out to be a fifth wheel. The system of granting permissions is not only superfluous, but a sham as well, as there can never be any refusal of the request unless it is made for later than 7 o'clock. The time has come to follow...
Dick Harlow's only consolation as his team was forced indoors for the third day in a row was that Tuss McLaughry of Brown must be facing the same difficulties in Providence. Scouts, have brought back glowing reports of the 1940 Bruins, and Harvard needs every available outdoor laboratory period in preparation...