Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frozen. Like Governor Murphy, sympathetic Governor Homer refused to risk bloodshed by sending militia to evict the sitters. As General Motors' officials had first done, Fansteel's President Robert J. Aitchison stood firm on his property rights, refused to discuss a settlement until his plant was evacuated. Thrice rejecting Governor Horner's pleas for a conference, he said he was perfectly willing to talk to his own employes, but would never treat with their outside C. I. O. leaders. "If they can sit in there," said he, "we can sit up here...
Professor Kilpatrick is valuable because he is so irritating a part of the school-system; as it writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...
...catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost...
...London an always dramatic scene in the House of Commons is when the Prime Minister says he has "a message from His Majesty the King, signed by His Majesty's own hand," then bows thrice to the Speaker of the House and hands it up to be read. This the Rt. Hon. Stanley Bald win did last week when he handed up to Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy the abdication message of Edward VIII (TIME, Dec. 21). The first message from new King George VI asked Parliament to make "permanent provision for the purpose of facilitating...
...Suvoroff, Rozhestvensky's flagship, was soon put out of action. The hail of shell-splinters flying into the conning tower thrice wounded Rozhestvensky. Soon no one knew who was in command of the Russian fleet. All that could be done was to follow the ship ahead, until it sank or fell out of line, turning in helpless circles. By nightfall (the action began at 2 p. m.) the Russians were trying only to escape. Till midnight they were harried by torpedo attacks. Next morning brought the main Japanese fleet again to mop up the survivors. By then most...