Word: fourfold
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...prescription turnover, always the first concern of the store, has shown a fourfold increase in the last six years, seriously overtaxing the present facilities...
Last week the remarkable fourfold career of the author of these words was ended by death in his 72nd year. He was kindly, white-haired John Rathbone Oliver of Baltimore-physician, psychiatrist, professor and priest. Countless Johns Hopkins students, Baltimoreans of all stations and readers of his books remember Dr. Oliver as one of the most unusual and winning personalities of his time...
...Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease shipments, they are doing it now. Springs are compressed, wheels and fenders nested, frames squeezed and stacked. Each shipment is a folded embryo of trucks...
...last 30 days, use of lignin-itself a plastic as well as a plastic "extender"-has increased fourfold in making airplane pattern plates...
...seen the film at private showings, Citizen Kane is the most sensational product of the U. S. movie industry. It has found important new techniques in picture-making and storytelling. Artful and artfully artless, it is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth. It is as psychiatrically sound as a fine novel but projected with far greater scope, for instance, than Aldous Huxley was inspired to bring to his novel on the same theme. It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people...