Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement supporting his article, "The Threefold Crisis in Our Universities," in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Harris claimed that the financial pinch today has forced college professors, even at Harvard to do extra work to support themselves. "On fashionable Brattle St. professors have taken in borders...
Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...
Under the proposed plan, which is backed by the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation, the university medical school and the local communities will cooperate in a threefold program to attract young doctors to rural districts. First, with a $4,000,000 grant, which will be asked of the state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly...
...trouble, apparently, was threefold: 1) inadequate equipment and research; 2) failure to keep up with new meteorological techniques abroad; 3) scientific inertia at home. Congress, which keeps the U.S. Weather Bureau on a starvation allowance, was guilty on the first count. But the official weatherman had to take some of the blame...
Vandenberg's personal contribution was threefold. As a parliamentarian he guided the Greek-Turkish and interim aid bills through Congress almost singlehandedly. As a policymaker, he prodded and pushed the State Department into recognizing the hopelessness of dealing with the Russians...