Word: extend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...training course is divided into two classes, preliminary and advanced. Together they extend over a period of six months, and entitle those who take the course to a commission as regular officer in the reserve corps. It is necessary to enlist for a period of four years to be able to take this preliminary training, but after receiving the commission only 15 days each year is required...
...Christmas recess will extend from Saturday, December 23, to Tuesday, January 2, inclusive. Every undergraduate is required to register in University 18 (north entry, second floor) after his last college exercise on December 22, and also on Wednesday, January 3, between 9 and 1.30 o'clock. College exercises will be held as usual on these days...
...distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops in the dictionary, even "Lift up your beans, ye mighty gates...
...Scholarship is not an initiative profession. Next to having no scholarship at all the worst possible effect on a community is to have it divorced from the ordinary interests of life. In the olden days of absolute rule, it was unnecessary to have scholarship extend beyond the throne or the monasteries. But if the government is controlled by the many, it is important that scholarship, knowledge and the ability to think straight should be widely disseminated throughout the entire people...
...Christmas recess will extend from Saturday, December 23, to Tuesday, January 2, inclusive. Every undergraduate is required to register after his last college exercise in University 18, north entry, second floor, on Friday, December 22; and also to register at the same place on Wednesday, January 3, between 9 and 1.30 o'clock. College exercises will be held as usual on these days...