Word: tri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request. For several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...those composition courses whose slogan is "you get out of this what you put in." The rudiments of literary creation are not induced into raw Freshmen and Sophomores by a brief judgment scrawled below the mark on the back of a weekly theme, nor even in the tri-weekly 20-minute conference. In these conferences, as in the readings of themes during the lectures hours, the criticism is mostly on the subject matter and plot, and little on the technique of the writer. This is satisfactory for students aiming at earning a living writing short stories for the Saturday Evening...
...this work is covered by means of tri-weekly lectures, weekly laboratory periods of two hours, and occasional night observations. Each laboratory session must be written up in a report of two or three pages in length. Occasional reports on specially assigned topics complete the work of the course. There is a reading period in this subject, and here too, a written report is required...
Since the days of the Armistice the French have employed a consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit...