Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vassar has challenged the Harvard Debating Council to a duel of words for this spring, and a match with the renowned women's college will probably be held around Easter time, officials of the club announced last night. Plans are also being made to continue the annual triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debating series...
...prizes will be given to the best debaters of the six who will compete in the triangular meet in April. Teams of three will go to New Haven to talk against Yale and stay here to debate Princeton, and two of the men will be eligible for the prizes, which held by the University in a custom unique in Harvard extra curricular activity. Candidates for the Council should leave their names with Phil Troen at Lowell House...
Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...
...dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...
...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...