Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hissed Cissie: "If the Army really needs ALL the able-bodied young men it can get," it can find in Secretary Hull's fold "an assortment of rich, able-bodied and unmarried boys of no particular use to anyone. ... There are plenty of intelligent girls available to more than adequately fill the jobs of these young...
...Well, boys," the big man said, "I guess it's all over but the shouting. I wouldn't be surprised to see those Heinies fold up tomorrow...
...this achievement. Last week their leader told how it was done. Dr. Robert D. Coghill, of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, Ill., addressing chemists in Manhattan, reported that new methods developed in his laboratory had speeded up the making of penicillin 150-fold. The huge effort concentrated on penicillin-hundreds of scientists, 21 manufacturers, $20,000,000 in plants-has been concerned with one major problem: how to make the mold that produces penicillin yield more heavily. This delicate process has more hazards than an obstacle race. The penicillium mold, found in fertile...
...great are DDT's potentialities that no fewer than seven U.S. laboratories and hundreds of biochemists are concentrated on it. Production has multiplied 350-fold in the last year; four manufacturers are now turning out about 350,000 pounds a month-all for the Army...
...heretics, notably because they believed that Christ's "divinity was not separated from His manhood for one moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...