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...Evans believes that chronic arthritis can often be prevented if oxygen is injected into the joints when they first begin to swell. The oxygen, he claims, has a threefold action: 1) it seems to act as a buffer between inflamed cells, separating them, opening lymph channels for drainage, and reducing pressure; 2) it probably kills certain types of bacteria; 3) it may neutralize poisons and stimulate local circulation of blood...
Philanthropist Rockefeller planned his charities as carefully as he planned his trust. His purpose was threefold: 1) to start object lessons in charity; 2) to start programs for others to carry on; 3) to start others giving by giving himself. But he was against setting up any charitable foundation "in perpetuity." Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time." With age John D. Sr. came to depend more & more on John D. Jr. to run his empire. He thought the young man did his job very well. But he ruthlessly curbed any tendency to spendthriftness...
...British strategists the attack was just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
...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...
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...