Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimizing of enemy successes, exaggeration of enemy defeats, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. The pattern of propaganda remains the same, though varying in degree and accent according to the country it comes from. The threefold task of propaganda ministries will still be in World War II as it was in World War I: 1) to undermine enemy morale; 2) hearten home forces; 3) give neutrals the very best impression possible...
...causes of the tutoring school situation, according to the Advocate, are threefold: poor teaching and poor course organization; the presence of the schools as an encouragement to "average laziness"; and the presence of lazy and uninterested students...
There was a pretty threefold situation: 1) Expensively lodged in the Commodore, with his lawyers and lieutenants of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike...
...which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...
This first case of two holding companies transferring an operating subsidiary has a threefold significance: 1) Cities Service is withdrawing slowly but thoroughly from the public-utility field-last week was reported about to unload its Ohio properties, its biggest public-utility investment in which it has an equity of some $27,000,000; 2) Commonwealth & Southern is rebuilding its system in the North precisely according to SEC demands; 3) two of the country's largest holding companies have decided there is no longer any use fighting the New Deal's utility reform...