Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Wilbur held his tongue while President Hoover answered for him. Said the President: "Dr. Wilbur will remain in the Cabinet. The University will gladly extend his leave as long as is necessary...
...Texas roast its blacks alive, Let racketeers extend and thrive, Let gangsters flourish and survive By methods grim and gory! But Knee-high shorts shall still preserve The noble mind, the fearless nerve And still shall culture's highest curve Remain Columbia's glory...
Potent in banking, Transamerica Corp. also has an interest in many an industrial such as General Foods. Last week it became associated, on an international scale, with a major utility. Prelude to the deal was formation of General Telephone & Electric Corp., whose primary purpose will be to extend the development of Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behind the new company with Transamerica are Theodore Gary & Co. of Kansas City ($20,000,000 stock to be taken by them) and British interests who have participated with Theodore Gary & Co. in Associated's development (to this group: $6,000,000 worth...
...fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate Oct. 15. Not improbably Avco will seek to extend its control all the way to the Pacific by buying from Western Air Express its El Paso-Los Angeles division (formerly Standard Air Line...
...Harvard. Dealing with the subject of college from the standpoint of both student and educator, the Chief Justice declared: "We may at times overestimate what can be accomplished in the few years of college training, and there are not wanting those who in their zeal to dignify and extend college work forget that college is made for man and not man for college . . ." Striking against attitudes of indifference, intolerance, and cynicism Chief Justice Hughes further restated the new concept of education as life itself, not merely an idealistic preparation for life...