Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ordinarily about thirteen hundred undergraduates, more than one third of the College enrollment, register for work with the Student Employment Office each year. In addition about 500 graduate students usually apply for work...
...sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
...column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week period on the air under the sponsorship of Camel Cigarettes...
...Women's Singles, sturdy Alice Marble, undefeated in 27 consecutive tournaments, breezed through to the final without losing a set, drubbed onetime Champion Helen Jacobs, 6-2, 6-3, to win her third U. S. Singles Championship...
...Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Tennessee. In its third edition the Tribune slashed its long editorial to a mild, 27-line cackle of pleasure...