Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school a total appropriation of $103 million for 1963-65 (still far less than the favored land-grant University of Illinois). More than 60 new buildings have been completed or are going up in Carbondale alone, including a 17-story dormitory tower. Students have also pitched in to expand S.I.U., though 4,000 of them work to help support themselves. They paid for a $4,500,000 student union, with 16-lane bowling alley, and are now planning to kick in toward a new medical center...
...hard-many of them feel that President Johnson does that all too well-is based on their experience of what a boom psychology can produce. When they feel a boom coming on, businessmen often tend to overestimate the market for their products, stockpile inventories in anticipation of inflation and expand their capacity more than they will eventually need-thus helping to bring on an economic downturn. Just in case anyone felt that that could not happen again, President Johnson said last week: "I wouldn't say for a moment that recessions are not possible." Warding one off as long...
...England Center of Inter-American Affairs might also greatly expand the present Harvard program which sends interested students to Latin America for the summer. It could also sponsor intensive summer courses on inter-American affairs...
...concluding chapters, where the priest's doubts bring him close to madness, Golding's allegorical purpose at last follows him to expand the book's emotional breadth. By now he has dramatized the two opposite extremes and must show the priest's mind gaining complexity in order to illustrate a resolution...
...different coils do different jobs. When the end of a metal tube is inserted into the doughnut-shaped coil, it can be shrunk tightly around any insert such as a plug or a threaded fitting. To expand a metal tube, a cylindrical coil is pushed inside it. A flick of the switch, and the tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field...