Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Favorites. Scandinavians take a special delight in the threefold challenge of orienteering: the struggle against natural obstacles, the physical competition against fellow racers, and the intellectual exercise of trying to choose the best route across strange terrain. But most of all, they relish the idea that in any race it is almost impossible to pick a favorite. The fastest runners can get bogged down in unexpectedly sloppy going; the cleverest map readers can lose precious minutes searching for diabolically hidden check points...
...reporting the news of the world's religious life, TIME'S RELIGION section assumes a threefold responsibility. The first is to follow the broad currents of religious thought, spot and report the important trends and ground swells in contemporary Protestantism, Catholocism and Judaism, review significant books and articles. There are also stories on the nonBiblical religions, from the Zuñi Indians of New Mexico (TIME, Jan. 11) to the great religions of the East. The second aim of the section is to present the personalities of religion on the basis that the news cannot be understood without...
...lure of the Delaware Valley is threefold: good rail and water transportation, plenty of labor, and proximity to the biggest market in the U.S.-the 21 million people who live within a radius of 100 miles of Philadelphia. For Big Steel, there has been one flaw: it built at Morrisville with the idea that ore boats from its huge Venezuela iron deposit could come right up the river to the plant. But so far, it has been able to get only smaller ships upriver, with Congress holding back on the money needed to dredge the channel the last 30 miles...
...American Heart Association this week launched a threefold drive among employers, physicians and heart patients themselves, to convince them that many more patients should be employed than is now the case. A job, it says, is good for them...
...great oil boom has also churned up a parallel treasure hunt in the nation's securities markets. For investors, oil's lure is threefold: 1) as wealth in the ground, where its value is likely to keep abreast of inflation, 2) as the raw material of the new petrochemical industry, and 3) as the beneficiary of a "depletion allowance" which permits 27½% of income from producing wells to be plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some...