Word: folds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significant were the Berlitz figures on specific languages people wanted to study. Biggest decline was in the demand for German: only one-fourth as many students as before the war. Enrollments in French and Italian were down to one-half. But students of Spanish had multiplied twelve-fold, today number 7,000 of the 11,251 total enrollment. Among them: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, last week appointed coordinator of U. S. commercial and cultural relations with South America...
...voters came out for him, Candidate Willkie stood at the head of the receiving line, deftly turning each one's particular strength into a campaign weapon-sometimes by letting a new supporter speak for himself, sometimes by his own welcoming remarks. Last week Mr. Willkie received into the fold...
...does hereby reaffirm its belief in the honesty and integrity of Brother William Bioff. . . ." Dusting out of Louisville, Mr. Green rushed to New York City to beg the gar ment makers (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) to come back into the A. F. of L. fold. President Dubinsky's terms for rejoining: i) elimination of the penny-a-month tax which...
...were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
...German importations genuinely welcome in this country. Mr. Kissner, a pioneer in the manufacture of these sleek "downhill yachts," has gathered together a valuable storehouse of information on the technical and geographical aspects of this speedier form of canoeing. It is altogether necessary for already-enthusiastic fold-boaters, and is likely to make many new converts to the sport...