Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning, Sarah Lawrence was so breezily progressive that its suburban neighbors viewed it askance, protested when it began to expand beyond the Lawrence estate. They complained that students raced through town in fur coats and rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter...
Something of his hopes were expressed in the following, at his inauguration in 1909: "A greater solidarity in college, more earnestness of purpose and intellectual enthusiasm would mean much for our nation. It is said that if the temperature of the ocean were raised, the water would expand until the floods covered the dry land; and if we can increase the intellectual ambition of college students, the whole face of our country will change. When the young men shall see visions the dreams of old men will come true...
Because of the peculiar physical properties of he latex rubber, the cured balloon can be expanded with a very slight pressure to at least 16 ft. in diameter before it bursts. In the expanded balloon the latex rubber is stretched so that its thickness is in the neighborhood of .00006 in. It is their ability to expand to such great size that makes these balloons so well-adapted to stratospheric work...
...copper-tube detector which has been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube, move a small diaphragm, close an electrical circuit, flash an alarm to the central fire station...
...Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community's No. 1 industry and its boss...