Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (third son of Johann Sebastian) described the pitfalls of harpsichord playing, adding that a good harpsichord performer must have "das Schnellen" (the snap), achieved by imitating with one's fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...
...Even before the announcement, he buried his face in a towel and moaned: "Why didn't I have it? Why didn't I have it?" First was California's Lance Larson in 55 sec.; second was Harvard's Bruce Hunter in 56 sec. Farrell was third, .1 sec. behind...
...Lynn Burke, 17, of the Santa Clara (Calif.) Swim Club, windmilled the 100-meter backstroke in 1:09.2 to break her own world record by .8 sec., set a furious pace that left 1956 Silver Medal Winner Corin Cone, 19, back in third place-and off the Olympic team...
From its founding last year, the pop-up Continental League had little chance of becoming a third major baseball circuit in 1961. The owners had franchises in eight cities,* but no players and no stadiums. By its paper existence, however, the Continental League bedeviled the 16 major-league teams...
...THIRD STOCK MARKET in Manhattan, formed by 400 members of New York Mercantile Exchange (commodity futures), will be set up if SEC approves. Listed companies on the new National Stock Exchange must have net worth of $1,000,000, at least 500 stockholders, 150,000 outstanding shares...