Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eyewitnesses said the building seemed to fold up like a pack of cards, trapping most of the children under the wreckage and blasting others against a brick wall. Fires broke out. For the next few days Civil Defense workers, fathers & mothers of the victims and American and British soldiers labored to recover the dead and wounded. Many mothers learned the worst from the little shoes and blue hats & coats laid out neatly in a nearby church...
...Parole Board. The other three, all convicted of labor-union terrorism, were freed without Parole Board recommendations. In New York City only the Daily Worker, Communist organ, carried the news. Other papers ignored it for ten days. The Worker carried another story, welcoming the labor terrorists back to the fold. Then the New York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander...
...China's war effort. The main reason why his country's star continued to rise in spite of the stoppage of the flow of supplies, Pu explains, is that the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, inaugurated in Hankow in 1933 with a government grant of $5,000,000, served the three-fold purpose of maintaining army morale, stimulating civilian morale among millions of harassed refugees from occupied Chins, and mobilizing manpower, capital, and natural resources...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...matter of fact the wave length of electrons accelerated by say 15,000 volts is already roughly 50,000 times smaller than that of visible light. According to the information concerning magnification presented in the article the actual improvement gained by substituting electron waves for light is only 50-fold...