Word: trying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...
...walk out of the Union along with "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States"; 2) abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for it. But when South Carolina rebels fired on Fort Sumter, secession became a fighting word in the North, and nothing more was heard of Tri-lnsula...
...doubt, Max Shulman would have a fine time writing about Lehigh's two social blocks (dormers and Greeks), and the authors of "General Education in a Free Society" could sink their teeth into a study of its tri-college system...
...comers, the Business School preps, there is the Business Board, with its overflowing coffers and Horatio Alger outlook. The f-stop crowd with a Tri-X perspective will drool when confronted with the CRIMSON's photographic facilities...
...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...