Word: tri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero in the late 19205. Not only did they mount the witness stand in Washington with penitence and goodwill, but also wrote a good record in their annual reports. In a study of 47 general management trusts, Tri-Continental Corp. last week announced that the average gain for the year had been...
Yale and Princeton teams will form the other two-thirds of the tri-cornered relay race in which Harvard...
...boys built several more planes and gliders with help from their rich families. In 1918 Juan built the world's second tri-motor. The test pilot crashed it by flying too low too slow. This rammed into the young designer's mind the two prime weaknesses of airplanes: they are utterly dependent upon their motors; they need lots of room to land or take off. Juan de la Cierva resolved to remove these flaws, began toying with helicopters (planes with the propeller faced vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging...
...open the program the Glee Club will sing the Bach Choral. "Awake Thou Wintry Earth", followed by the madrigal "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley. Third comes an Italian student song "Nu Semmo Tri Duttur", by Bazchieri...
There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...