Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each year at midyears, a new crop of Harvard men are taken into the Alumni fold. For no matter what happens after that date members of the Freshman class who pass their first undergraduate exam-hurdle are identified with the most far-flung and cosmopolitan association of college alumni in the world. It is very typical of the Harvard system to class a man as part of Harvard, as of that controversial genus harvardi viri, long before the awarding of the degree. It is typical of the alumni setup at Harvard, which is, in every way, mature, highly sober...
...Nazi war machine expired, the U.S. heart seemed to soften. In February 1945, the U.S. met with other American republics in Mexico City to open the gate for U.N. Argentina was not invited. The Act of Chapultepec, however, pointed the way back into the fold. Argentina might regain the family bosom if she 1) agreed to a system of collective security in the Western Hemisphere, 2) wiped out Axis commercial influence and deported Axis spies, 3) declared war on the Axis...
...fact was that seldom-performed Lakmé had been chosen this year to welcome 42-year-old Lily Pons back into the Met fold. She is still the most competent coloratura in the business, and the Met was ready to admit it, after trying to build up an unproved fledgling, 18-year-old Patrice Munsel while Lily flew off with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, on U.S.O. tours...
...there was also a second objective: to stop wildcat strikes. Said N.F.T.W.'s President Joseph A. Beirne: "It is absolutely necessary that the industry's unions always be aware of their two-fold responsibility to the public as well as their members...
...horse sense rather than strained nonsense. ... If any of the comedians needs convincing I'd suggest [he] dig up the writings of 'Kin' Hubbard, the oldtime [Indianapolis News] columnist, [who] said almost 40 years ago: ¶ 'The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket...