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...Threefold Objective...
...objective of Mr. Watt's organization is threefold: first, to enable young men and women from this country to form valuable contacts and lasting friendships with the youth of foreign nations, at the same time offering them opportunities of European travel at a nominal cost; secondly, to open up to them linguistic and cultural opportunities unknown in America; and thirdly, to acquaint them with the varied forms of outdoor life on the rivers and mountains of Europe. From all points of view Mr. Watt's efforts have, in past years, met with vast success...
...News competition offers an exceptionally good field to those who wish to accomplish the threefold purpose of improving their writing, learning something of journalistic methods and the mechanics of the composition of a newspaper, and of widening their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about...
Keystone of the second Five-Year Plan is: Threefold increase in food, clothes and personal utensils for every inhabitant of Soviet Russia ; therefore a 300% improvement in living conditions. This constituted a change of emphasis from the development of heavy industry to the manufacture of commodities which people can use. For Stalin it meant that Russians might learn to love...
...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...