Word: trying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...
...Howard van Sciver, onetime commodore of the Tri-State Yacht Club at Philadelphia, his son, his daughter and two other young girls, clad only in bathing suits, escaped unharmed when the van Sciver yacht Clarella II caught fire off Cape...
...Expansion. Large among independent telephone companies is Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co., operating without competition in St. Paul and 140 other communities in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Yet last week Tri-State went the way of most independent telephone companies, completed a deal whereby it will be acquired by A. T. & T. through Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Tri-State has $28,151,000 assets, last year earned $1,389,000. It is closely held, control reputedly resting with Theodore Gary & Co. of Kansas City. After this deal (largest in recent years), A. T. & T. will have...
...that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research body. Mr. Stout saw hope for the becalmed market in private-use planes: ''Things...
...begin the study of a language. Practiced pedagogy, small classes, and the secondary school function of mental training rather than mental stimulation, all point to the high school as the logical and only place for elementary instruction. To force the school to recognize this function, Harvard, if it wants tri-lingual graduates, must demand trilingual ability from its candidates for entrance. Admission to Harvard, then, should depend on Latin or Greek and three or four years' work in modern language, or, for an S.B. candidate, on a combination of any two of the four major continental tongues including at least...