Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructors in Economics A state that they deal with several types of men. Some undoubtedly cannot assimilate the material in the text book adequately without assistance in the thrice-weekly section meetings. There is a large number on the other hand, who can master Professor Taussig's classic with a minimum of outside...
...Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down in the farmlands of Pennsylvania. Instead of a two-hour flight, the Goucher girls spent a long, cold day, arrived at Pittsburgh next morning by train...
...TIME, Dec. 24, 1928) or Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond (TIME, Oct. 20). He was lax in prosecuting unscrupulous bondsmen, dock racketeers and ambulance chasing lawyers. He failed to obtain an indictment in the case of retired Magistrate Ewald, suspected of buying his judgeship for $10,000, which was later thrice tried unsuccessfully (TIME, Feb. 2). Of 623 grand jury indictments for grand larceny sent to his office, only 32 were tried and convicted. From this ecord it appeared that instead of diligently executing his trust, Sachem Grain had merely been a placid front-row spectator at the Scandals...
...brought the 25th anniversary of M. Aristide Briand's first appointment as a French Cabinet Minister (in the Sarrien Cabinet of 1906). Destined, in popular estimation, to be soon elected President of France, M. Briand has been once Minister of Interior & Worship, twice Minister of Public Instruction & Worship, thrice Minister of Justice, eleven times Prime Minister and 16 times Foreign Minister, which he is today...
...birthday party. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court was 90 in years, in spirit 30. Over the radio great men led by Chief Justice Hughes praised this famed son of a famed father as few living men are praised. They reviewed his long career-thrice-wounded Union soldier, Harvard scholar, Massachusetts judge, senior jurist of the nation's highest court, liberal dissenter from conservative majorities. Said Dean Charles Edward Clark of Yale's law school: "So often has he been ahead of his generation in scholarship as well as opinion that...