Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third successive sweep of the New London regatta and the surprise victory over Yale in the baseball series provided a tumultuous climax to an otherwise mediocre 1939-40 athletic year...
Because of superior pitching, Yale's nine was a pre-series favorite. Yale's pitching failed after the first game. A below-par Crimson Varsity advantaged from the breaks and its own fight to win the second and third games and captured the series for the second straight year...
Mendel shone in soccer and track. In pacing the team to triumph against Yale, he scored a goal against Yale for the third successive year. He set a new Harvard shot put record in the spring, and became the first Harvard man to put the shot over 50 feet...
Actually, Gehrig never was "felled" by the polio germ. His ailment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (TIME, March 25), is something quite different, is not communicable. The New York Yankees hurriedly disproved "Doctor" Powers' quack diagnosis by winning six games in a row and moving up to third place in the American League pennant race-only six games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Lou Gehrig's rebuttal was more direct. Saying that he is now "a pariah whom many people shun," honest, earnest Lou Gehrig, who has been practically canonized since retiring from baseball last summer, last week brought...
Says he: "There are three areas, in particular, where a swift renewal of faith and act and deed must take place: these are the areas that have always been lifesustaining, life-preserving, life-forwarding. One is the family. The other is the land. And the third is the self. . . . Without a revamping of our ideas and practices in these areas . . . our efforts to preserve a civilized social order will be feeble and hollow. . . ." How this revamping is to be accomplished, practically under fire, is left somewhat vague, all the more so because Author Mumford. by habit, intention and idiom, addresses...