Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north of the Endicott Mountains. This report was later denied by Major Lanphier, Wilkins' second-in-command, and not for three days was the Alaskan's safe landing at its destination definitely known...
...University debating team left for its invasion of Princeton. The debate tonight is the last of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular series, and it also marks the close of the Eastern Debating League season. The University team will uphold the affirmative of the question "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age" This is the same subject that was contested in the Harvard Yale debate two weeks...
Tonight's debate marks the close of a, so far, very successful season for the University team. The first triumph, that over Oxford last fall, was in many ways the most notable forensic achievement of the year. Following this debate three triangular series with other teams in the League were held. The first resulted in victories over Wesleyan and Brown and the second in a win from Pennsylvania. The only defeat of the entire season was at the hands of Williams, through a default by the University team. The climax came two weeks ago in the victory over the brilliant...
...American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
With the I.C.A.A.A.A. indoor meet in New York on March 6, the University track team brought to a close its must successful indoor season in recent years. The victory in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell, and the triumph over all the teams of the east in the intercollegiates were the high spots in the team's winter record...