Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legend. He is remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match period. The Wander-years (they numbered seven) included the U. S., Mexico, England, South Africa, India, Canada, were spent chiefly in the erection of tall buildings. Such famed Manhattan structures as the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan
Catholics in Omaha and Evansville began speculating last week upon the ultimate verdict on the life of Mother Mary Magdalene. Years may pass before they hear it. If the Pope and Cardinals find her life irreproachable, she will receive the title "Venerable." Then, for beatification, will come a threefold test: 1) a reputation for sanctity must be established; 2) the heroic quality of virtues must be established; 3) the working of miracles must be proved. When this test has been passed, upon the Venerable is conferred the title "Blessed...
James Noah Henry Slee, president of Three-in-One Oil Co., gives a biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control League exists for "charitable, scientific and educational purposes...
...activities of this new segment of psychological discipline are threefold: 1. instruction in psychopathology by means of lectures, discussions and demonstrations: 2. systematic psychological investigations upon volunteer subjects, most of whom are members of the class; and 3. investigation and treatment of selected cases of the psychoneuroses. At present psychopathology as a science vibrates uncertainly between two extreme, points; concepts based upon the brilliant but unsubstantiated intuitions of certain eminent psycho-analysts and the results of a mass of unenlightened objective tests assiduouly performed by more conscientious but less inspired workers. The illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination...
Said Philanthropist Adler: "In giving the planetarium to Chicago, I have a threefold conception. . . . The third is to emphasize that all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity...