Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tact does when confronted with a shocking violation of the most elementary precepts of good taste: we ignored it. However, the reiteration of this ruttish broadside in today's CRIMSON suggests that the avowed feceophage has seized upon the advantage of wholesale rates to repeat his disgusting puff. Your threefold publication of this pornographic notice allows us no longer to remain silent...
...people had heard most of what he had to say before. Defense costs were going up & up; they would be $30 billion annually by next June, more in the years to follow. There would be less to spend for peacetime purposes. The home-front problem, the President said, was threefold...
...through Chittagong, an overgrown fishing village with a commercial façade. Determined to transform Chittagong into a major port, the government hired Hans Hansen, a Finnish-born American citizen, who was a stevedore before the war. Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading. His job is a shining, rare example of Point Four...
...advance made by freshmen was in the number making first rank. At midyears of last year, 10 men out of 1889 gained top ranking; this year 22 freshmen are in Group I, out of a class that numbers 229 fewer members. On a percentage basis, the increase was almost threefold...
Blueprint. Ewing's complaint was threefold: 1) the nation was not spending enough on health; 2) the spending power was not evenly distributed; and 3) because illness strikes without warning, even a thrifty, budget-careful family may have its savings wiped out and be forced into debt by a catastrophic or chronic illness. To allow the nation to spend more on its health, Ewing had detailed blueprints for building more hospitals, boosting the output of doctors, dentists and nurses, and beefing up public health services. Few argued with these aims, though many-especially doctors fearing federal interference with their...