Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...flabbergasted by the statement in TIME [Aug. 26] that the Soviet Union is producing 12,000,000 bales of cotton. If that were true, Russia would be not third, but first, in world cotton production...
...raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds, the effect of Willkie on them-until their voices grew hoarse with contention, as the candidate's grew husky with campaigning. Tired after eleven days of travel, variously afflicted with colds and indigestion, the wisecracks...
Through Nebraska's Senator George Norris, their octogenarian chairman, the newly organized Independent Voters for Roosevelt (TIME, Sept. 30), proclaimed that a Third Term was, "in this crisis . . . a relatively insignificant apprehension...
...last week, Democrats had not even bothered to take their coats off. The Third Term was a cinch. The whole thing was just a killer. National Committee Chairman Ed Flynn had decided that he did not even have to leave The Bronx. If anybody wanted him, they knew where to find him. Mr. Roosevelt made a few remarks which he laughingly admitted were "political." The only Democrat who seemed to take it seriously was Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who plodded up & down the land making earnest speeches to farmers...
...over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers in the warships' fire-control towers said flames leaped up, were still visible at sea two hours later. For the third time in a week the British Fleet had pounded troop concentrations along the coast. Further Italian advances along the coastal defile between the sea and the Libyan plateau would have to be carried on under the muzzles of the British Fleet unless the numerically and mechanically superior Italian Air Force...