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Word: folding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Modern Times | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including an outdoor skating rink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Playing for the Crimson will be: Richard Dorson George Lowman. Hubert Hauck, Alvah Sulloway, James Fold, Stuart Wyeth, Arthur Brown and Anderson Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Face Light Blue on Courts Here This Afternoon | 5/15/1937 | See Source »

Despite his dramatic dismissal from the Third Reich, Dr. Bruening's reputation has benefited rather than suffered, and Harvard may be justly proud of having taken a man into its fold, whose abilities were not appreciated in a country that has rejected all things intellectual and cultural. So long as the leading universities in this country continue to uphold the traditions of free speech and unrestricted academic thinking, hysterical dictatorships and mob psychology will hold little danger for America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S GOOD FORTUNE | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...battleship is not only bigger than a destroyer, it is a thousand-fold more complicated. Comrade V. M. Orlov, chief of the navy department, admitted last week that there were neither yards nor designers in Russia today capable of constructing such a craft. His solution was simple: one battleship would be ordered from the U. S. to be shipped to Russia knocked down in separate parts, accompanied by a force of U. S. naval architects and technicians. On Soviet shores the parts would be duplicated, then both battleships would be screwed together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Knockdown Battleship | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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