Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying. To make this simple as can be, We leave to them technocracy. To them we're leaving the analysis Of beer...
...terms of the new gift provide that the officials may alter and expand the collection at their own discretion. This form of gift, which is none too usual, makes a living collection possible which will be susceptible of growth and modification, in short the most valuable and instructive kind of a public museum or an educational institution...
...achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding the line, came closest to an exception...
Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...
...permitting boys to compete in some of our more energetic team sports there is a serious question as to how far we should expand our inter-House program. Intercollegiate sport teams demand real supervision, because to make the team a boy must subject himself to the rigors and discipline of training. We require, of course, a physical and medical examination for all who take part in inter-House athletics, but the training requirements are not compulsory, with the result that these boys are not in as good physical condition as are intercollegiate athletes. Often in House football we have been...