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Word: threefold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with American education is threefold, according to Cram. In the first place, "Leadership . . . during the last twenty years has passed into the hands of administrators rather than teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cram Bewails Youths' Stand on Moral Issue | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Princeton's Tigers, looming as threats for major titles in Eastern League winter sports competition, face the season's crossroads in their threefold quest this week as they meet leaders and leading contenders for each of the crowns--basketball, swimming and hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Squads Threaten To Gain Top Places in Week's League Games | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady Vanishes). Their threefold larcenies make entertainment as pleasant as pointless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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