Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks a working pressure of 2,000,000 Ib. The triple-action stroke will not start until four men use both hands to push starting buttons, will automatically stop unless each operator keeps both his buttons down...
...these three fields, according to Dean Clifford, Harvard has a chance to win world-wide fame if it can only extend its facilities. For in two of them, sanitary engineering and high voltage, members of the Engineering School staff have already done work of such a calibre that the University has been placed in the forefront of scientific progress...
...cannot help wondering if Dean Pound would be so eager to extend the Law School course to four years, if he knew the grim tragedies that confront students on every side under the present three-year arrangement. Though the following tear-jerker won a $10. prize in the "Traveller" Love Letter Contest, its writer can scarcely feel repaid in cold cash for a loss so inestimable...
...Extend the Law School course from three to four years...
...concession to recalcitrant Democrats, the Appropriations Committee made several notable amendments in the bill: 1) Knocked out was a section which would have given the President power to extend the life of any Government agency to June 30, 1937. 2) Knocked out was the penalty of two years in jail, for violating any rules the President might make about his $4,000,000,000. 3) Knocked out was the President's power to acquire personal property by exercising the right of eminent domain...