Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaped rig (see cut) adds speed and helps prevent boats from tipping, says its inventor, General Electric Co. Engineer Burnice D. Bedford. The new shape spills wind underneath the sail rather than over it, causing a "lifting" effect. It measures 120 sq. ft. v. 72 sq. ft. for a triangular sail on the same boat; with its rig it weighs 78 lbs. v. a conventional sail's 25-30 lbs. Bedford hopes to reduce the weight, patent and market a still better sail within a year...
...nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...
...Yardling track team should finish its season with a win over Yale tomorrow afternoon in their meet at Soldier's Field. Earlier this year, the freshmen whipped both Yale and Princeton in an indoor triangular meet...
...participants in that debate were graduates of Boston schools where debates had been held since 1887. The first debate in which no decisions were rendered, had three speakers without a rebuttal. After three years Princeton was added as a regular opponent, and finally, in 1909, the formal Triangulars were set up. Providing for simultaneous debates in Cambridge, New Haven, and Princeton, the Triangulars have been held annually since then, despite two wars and Harvard's break in athletic relations with Princeton in the 20s. In the Triangular, dominance has come in cycles, with Harvard winning more than its share. This...
Impetus to the more formal debates of the early 20th century was given by a number of prizes, including the Coolidge Prize, endowed in memory of T. Jefferson Coolidge 1850 and awarded annually to the two best speakers in a practice debate preceeding the Triangulars. The prize, won this year by Robert M.O'Neil '56 and David P. Bryden '57, is awarded on the specifications established in the instructions to the judges for the Triangular Debates...