Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon, architect of Manhattan's famed Empire State Building. One of Israel's tallest structures, the pink, ocher and brown marble building consists of two domed wings connected by cloisters to a Jesus Tower, symbolizing the Trinity and the Y's threefold function-developing man's body, mind and spirit. Twelve cypress trees in the eight acres of gardens represent the twelve Apostles, and on the tower are carved, in Aramaic, Jesus' words from John...
...born and first-generation Americans make up 23% of the population, Miller assailed any liberalization of immigration quotas. He declared that a Johnson Administration bill would "open the floodgates for any and all who wish to come and find work in this country" and would increase immigration next year "threefold." Actually, Miller was wrong on what the Administration's bill, now pending in House and Senate subcommittees, would do. It would drop nationality quotas, easing immigration for persons of needed skills, but would retain an overall quota. It would allow an increase of only 8,000 immigrants next year...
...automaker now in business to make seat belts standard equipment, no one had any fear that motorists would once more lay hold of their razors. Finally convinced by safety authorities that seat belts can prevent many traffic deaths, U.S. motorists are buying them so fast that sales have risen threefold since 1960 to $63 million last year-and this year are running at double the 1962 rate...
Under Keppel, the Harvard School of Education's enrollment has risen nearly threefold to 657, its budget tenfold to $3,063,000. Highly influential, the school now boasts as alumni the state commissioners of education in New York and Massachusetts, New York City's newly appointed School Superintendent Calvin E. Gross (who was picked largely on Keppel's recommendation), and last year's head of the White House nursery school, who may have put in a good word about her old dean...
Last week safety experts figured that some 3,300,000 (more than 5%) of the nation's 64 million passenger cars are already fitted with safety belts, at least for the front seats. This is a threefold increase over last year, and the number is expected to double again by year's end. Main reason: five states (Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin) have passed laws requiring all new cars to be equipped with seat belts in the near future...