Word: tried
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tri-Continental Support. This week Secretary Dulles went back to Geneva for a conference of the Big Four foreign ministers, which President Eisenhower had defined as "the acid test" of the Soviet Union's peaceful intentions. After conferring last week with the President in his hospital room at Denver, Dulles reported: "I go to Geneva with the assurance that I have behind me a President who fully knows the issues and who has given me a full and comprehensive mandate to speak for our nation." He also got assurances of support from the leaders of Congress...
...worst storms on earth are tornadoes, and most tornadoes hit the U.S.: 5,204 in 35 years (1916-50), killing 7,961 people and causing $476 mil lion in damages. History's worst, the Tri-State tornado of 1925, killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A single storm front can create several tornadoes, each whirling furiously for a few fearsome miles. Sometimes the roaring black vortex stays harmlessly in the sky; when it dips to earth, the impact can dig a crater...
Over the past years, however, the Eastern Selection Committee has followed an unofficial pattern of picking one team from the New England area and the other from the further west Tri-State League. Last season RPI and Boston College were selected, while in 1953 Yale and St. Lawrence made the trip...
...outbreak of the Spanish-American War, a struggling, six-year-old magazine gave a piece of stern advice to U.S. women: "Don't be so violently, alarmingly and visibly patriotic as to wear the tri-colors on everything. Bad taste never yet helped a good cause...
...reasons not merely financial, the new plan seems ill advised. The spirit of piety does not demand that undergraduates be tagged as "Protestants," "Jews," or "Seculars." PBH's religion should be non-denominational, not tri-denominational as Hastie would make...