Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porter agreed, under pressure, to extend the time limit for the com- plete suppression of opium production from 10 to 15 years, but the period was virtually to begin forthwith. Britain would and could not agree. She wanted the period to begin from a time when China had effectively suppressed the excess growth of the opium poppy and so removed the danger of smuggling. In other words, progressive restriction on the cultivation of the poppy was not practical international politics until the smuggling danger had been removed...
...afternoon, and it will probably meet a much stronger team than Tilton, Choate or Milton, the three victims of the Freshmen to date. Hebron will come to Cambridge with practically the same line-up as that which defeated the 1927 five in two overtime periods last year and should extend the Freshman quintet to the limit. HARVARD M. I. T. Smith r.f. l.g. Eager Leekley l.f. r.g. Ingram Rauh c. c. Wilcox Samborski r.g. l.f. Forrester Morrison l.g. r.f. Hinck
...gold currency. * Controversy began of the pros and cons, and the discussion was given much point by the fact that on Dec. 31, 1925, the prohibition placed in 1919 on trading in gold expires. The British Government must make up its mind to resume gold payments or extend the legislation prohibiting it. Which is it to be? That is the argument...
...novel, which is about a certain auburn-haired Connemara, was begun by Carolyn Wells, continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...
...That without becoming a member of the League of Nations as at present constituted, the U. S. shall, offer to extend its present cooperation with the League and participate in the work of the League as a body of mutual counsel under conditions which...