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A Different Spin on the World Around Us

It’s February, that second month, which means it’s not only time to celebrate groundhogs, amour and Presidents but several seconds:

* Second-largest university library: Yale.

* Second baseman for the 1969 New York Mets: Ken Boswell.

* Second section of the second article of the U.S. Constitution: Gives the President authority to grant pardons and reprieves.

* Second Second Lady: Martha Jefferson Randolph, official hostess for her widowed father, Thomas.

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* Eastern state with the second-longest coastline: North Carolina.

* Second Roman Catholic chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: Edward White.

* Second-biggest cause of accidental deaths in the U.S.: Falls.

* Song by The Supremes to spend the second-shortest period on Billboard’s Top 40: “Automatically Sunshine.”

* Second-to-last monarch from the House of Tudor: Mary I.

* Seconds it should take to read this: 27.

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