Word: three-year
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...take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
...final arguments, which usually take place sometime during the spring are the result of a series of competitions held throughout the usual three-year course at the Law School. Only third year students are allowed to participate...
Cramming as much experience into his lineup as it will hold, Coach Jim MacDonald will start six Seniors against a Medford aggregation that boasts eight three-year men. In addition, all but one of the starting Crimson legmen has Varsity experience behind him, the one exception occurring at the vital goalie post, where Sophomore Doug Thompson will hold forth. Thompson, captain of last year's successful Yardling team, won the job with little trouble this year and will take the chief role in the Crimson defense this afternoon...
...ignore "the usual long-haired men and short-haired women who will want at once to tear down our national defenses." He "will be surprised and very much dismayed if the U.S. ever disarms again." One benefit he foresees from compulsory peacetime military service is a permanent three-year college course to enable undergraduates to spend the fourth year in uniform: "Our young men will profit from a year's military training and will be saved a year of the wasted time that has always characterized American education...
...near Point, Tex. When his miner-engineer-farmer father died in Colorado, young Jim had to support his mother, three sisters, a wife and child, and a mortgaged farm. He worked his way through college, managed a co-op insurance company, taught school, finally became secretary of the Colorado Farmers Union in 1934. In 1940 he became the national president, first on trial basis because he was so young. Big, loose-jointed, boyish-looking Jim was elected to a three-year term this year. Union members in 26 States own cooperatives with assets of $100 million that handle oil, insurance...