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Word: folding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back on the platinum standard again, Jean Harlow, as an American chorine stranded in Europe for the World War, turns in a performance that should bring many old devotees of the once blondest siren back into the fold...

Author: By W. P. V. e., | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...Wells to Fold. Some three decades ago Sir Norman Lockyer, who discovered helium in the sun, urged BAAS to take some notice of social problems, to establish better communications with the public. The members snorted. Sir Norman thereupon organized the British Science Guild, which cooperated on socio-scientific matters with His Majesty's Government. When BAAS continued its indifference, famed Biologist John Burden Sanderson Haldane also resigned from it, and Writer Herbert George Wells mercilessly made fun of it. For the last twelve years persistent efforts have been made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: BAAS | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

With an examination of the Symposia, the plan and purpose of the three-fold approach became apparent. In the early days of university life, the heritage of classical antiquity and the medieval tradition of theology were guiding forces in education. Harvard itself was founded, as so many know, by the early settlers, "fearing to leave an illiterate ministry" to the churches. But a growth in the Humanities and the Sciences led scholars to diverse paths as the years passed, and men became more concerned with their separate fields than with the connection of these fields with one another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Technical Tercentenary Conference Formed Plan for Study of Human Society | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...three-fold exhibition in Robinson Hall has proved one of the popular spots to the thousands who have visited "Harvard on View." Hours for visiting the exhibit are on September 19 between 10 o'clock to 5 o'clock or one September 20 from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBINSON EXHIBITS EARLY AMERICANISM | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...Kuhn, Loeb, while "A. P." Giannini was once again busy spreading his banking empire over the western U. S., which is legally kinder to branch banking than any other section. In 1931 he accepted the loss of his Manhattan bank, concentrated on bringing little Western banks into the fold of San Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward, bought up Reno, Nevada's First National Bank, made it the centre of a cluster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Second Empire | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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