Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat, premature perfection of her character appears to extend in all directions. Her teeth fall out on schedule, one by one, and are replaced for working hours by temporary stopgaps. She wears one of these in Captain January. She is expert at such games as checkers, pachisi, casino and "squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps...
This last unit, gift of the Class of 1908, will include the new memorial gate to Charles W. Eliot '53, and will extend from in front of the President's House on Quincy Street over to the Massachusetts Avenue-Cambridge Street corner of the Yard. The section of the fence in the read of Sever Hall along Quincy Street is already permanently built, leaving approximately 650 feet to be built...
...much fun was Franklin Roosevelt having that he scrawled his signature on a bill to extend for one year the Federal Housing Administration's power to insure remodeling loans and went right on with his fishing, postponing his return to shore until the middle of this week...
...enough. Our institutions must be kept free from the appropriation of unauthorized power by lesser agencies as well. And if the various administrative bureaus and commissions, necessarily called and being called into existence by the increasing complexities of our modern business and political affairs, are permitted gradually to extend their powers by encroachments-even petty encroachments-upon the fundamental rights, privileges and immunities of the people, we shall in the end, while awaiting the fatal consequences of a supreme autocracy, become submerged by a multitude of minor invasions of personal rights, less destructive but no less violative of constitutional guarantees...
...bank margin rules solely to speculative borrowing. If his bank will accommodate him, a man can still pledge his stocks for, say, 70% of their value to buy a farm or build a house. Said the Board: "The regulation does not restrict the right of a bank to extend credit, whether on securities or otherwise, for any commercial, agricultural or industrial purpose or for any other purpose except the purchasing or carrying of stocks registered on a national securities exchange...