Word: folds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshman, your advisors, as you already know, are manifold. Not to mention fond parents and sophisticated friends in the Sophomore Class you have been assigned Faculty Advisors and Student Advisors, who will descend upon you like the "wolf on the fold" and whom you cannot avoid except by strategy worthy of a Focheor a Hindenburg. Finally there are the Proctors who are to hold office hours this year and of whom a wag has said that they will act not merely as counsellors and friends but as spiritual advisors as well...
...occur where mountain-making is in progress. Large segments of the earth in adjusting themselves in equilibrium exert tremendous pressure. By this process mountains are raised in the course of a few million years, a comparatively short time geologically speaking. From time to time under the huge stresses which fold and warp rocks, the strain becomes too great in the earth's crust, something gives way and the whole earth shakes. No exact, scientific explanation of these movements has been reached. But it is known that the present is one of the greatest mountain making periods in the earth...
...England only The Pilgrim, edited by Bishop Temple, matches this Journal in the Protestant fold...
...understood that he has again refused the post. The name of Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, has been mentioned in connection with the vacant post, but nothing definite is known. Austen Chamberlain (halfbrother to Neville) is the most likely man if he can be brought back into the Conservative fold...
President de Alvear sent a message to the Chamber of Deputies urging them to pass necessary legislation to facilitate Argentina's return to the fold of the League of Nations...