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Word: folds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main gym looks like something out of a small Midwestern high school, with one official size basketball court and two smaller adjacent ones. The stands are of the fold-down variety and hold about...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Sports: Look-ins and Zig-outs | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...group, published a pamphlet called Introducing Harvard a few years ago that said: "That is what Harvard trains you for: surviving and rising in the bureaucracy of your choice." Even President Pusey, in his Walter Mittys of the Left speech, saw his mission as bringing radical students into the fold, saying: "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to college education...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Used to measure the strength of earthquakes. Because the scale is logarithmic, each higher number represents a tenfold increase in the magnitude of the tremors, and a 30-fold increase in the energy released. Thus a 2-point quake is barely perceptible, a 5 may cause minor damage, a 7 is severe, and an 8 is a violent quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORECAST: EARTH QUAKE | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...back his $5 million loan. He has carefully avoided threatening to withdraw if the FCC refuses to give him relief, but he would have little incentive to suffer Texas-size losses. In the absence of any other acceptable buyer, the Star's owning families could elect to fold it and live off broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To Catch a Falling Star | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...club's problems with finding a home, except that a study being made on the question has made no recent progress--but he does place the club's priorities far away from any goal of increased clubbiness He says he sees his role in the club as three-fold: to maintain Harvard ties; keep up on the intellectual end of the school, specifically finding qualified candidates to send to Harvard; and fund raising, especially for area boys going to Harvard...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Philadelphia: Brotherly Alumni | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

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