Word: folds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Previous wars ended and left little trace upon the landscape of the Somme Valley. This vaster conflict, fought with a million-fold more destructive weapons, will not rely upon historians for its chronicle; like a geologic epoch, it is blasting into the countryside the ineffaceable record of its vehemence and horror...
There are signs that the so-called, but not always proven, "Big Three" among the athletic colleges, Princeton, Yale and Harvard, are about to come back into the fold of genuine sport competitions in various forms this year. Princeton has already announced its change, and Harvard seems about to do so at an early date. Yale will have to follow...
Give them "hayseed," chaff from the barn floor, crumbs, scraps of meats, bones, and suet, anything eatable, and they will repay you a thousand fold by their work in the garden and the orchard...
...still being done in the construction and improvement of gas masks of various types. Hundreds of American chemists have been busily employed for many months in attacking these problems and they have already effected striking improvements in the gas masks and have increased their effectiveness almost ten-fold. Then there is the problem of defence against the use of incendiary mixtures and the allied problem of their offensive employment, and again the problem of the production of clouds and their use. This matter has been taken up vigorously by American chemists and great advances made so that cloud production...
...will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor the money needed for the sustenance of his family. Let us take to heart the word that comes from Russia to the effect that the savings in her banks have increased more than twenty-fold since the prohibition of the sale of vodka in spite of the terrible cost...