Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This number, which represents more than a three-fold increase over the spring term attendance, remains considerably below the normal peace time figure of 1200 to 1300 students, comparison with past records reveals...
...State Department abruptly caused postponement of the Inter-American Conference on Peace and Security, which was to have opened in Rio on Oct. 20. The State Department explanation: the U.S. could have no dealings with the Argentine militarists whom the U.S. had welcomed back in the Hemispheric fold only seven months ago. The Latin American fear: that the Good Neighbor policy of joint action was being scrapped...
Into the Socialist fold had come impressive numbers from the bourgeoisie. These most conservative of Frenchmen were fleeing the extremes of the Communist Left and of the ultrareactionary Right...
Sleepers will be all-bedroom cars, but designed for daytime comfort, too. Partitions will fold aside so that several rooms can be made into one for day travel. Beds, and practically everything else not needed during the day, will fold into wall space to make room for comfortable chairs and lounges. Smart dressing-table tops will cover lavatories and plumbing. Shower baths will be installed in bedrooms...
With unofficial estimates placing College enrollment in the fall at 1,000, less than one-third the peacetime level, Dean James M. Landis this week predicted seven to ten-fold increase over the war period in admissions to the Law School next month...