Word: triplet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week over Chinese officials at Hankow when news came that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...East St. Louis, 111., Mrs.Cleveland Piper, 38, mother of six, gave birth to triplet girls. The Cleveland Pipers are on relief...
...Rule of 87: One twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births; one triplet to about 7,569 singles (87 squared); one quadruplet to about 658,503 singles (87 cubed); one quintuplet to about 57 million singles (87 to fourth power); one sextuplet to about five billion singles (87 to fifth power...
Quintuplets occur once in about 57,000,000 births, if the "Rule of 87" holds out. W. W. Greulich, University of Colorado statistician, after examining tables of over 100,000,000 births in various countries, found that one twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births, one triplet to about 7,569 (87 squared) singles, one quadruplet to about 658,503 (87 cubed) singles. Fifth power of 87 (for sextuplets) is about five billions. No one has been able to explain this apparent rule...
...want, however, to detract at all from the great credit that is due to the Lowell Observatory for making the find. These men set up their great telescope, the 13-inch Triplet, the funds for which were donated by President Lowell, expressly to find the predicted planet and with great skill they managed to get its image on one of their photographic plates. Too much honor cannot be accorded such fine astronomical calculations...