Word: folds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruise of the schooner Morrissey was undertaken last summer under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. Its object was two-fold: to investigate in North Greenland the life of the Eskimos, now fast disappearing, and to secure specimens of the sea mammals and fish of that region...
...Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into the fold...
...Bull, Fold...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart in TIME, Dec. 13 You say "The wild bull of the Senate will be back again in the 70th session, having made peace with the Iowa Republicans." A state paper expressed the facts more correctly as follows : "Smith Wildman Brookhart is home again in the Republican fold-it was done by moving the fold over to him." ERNEST WYKES...
...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...