Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to the bipartisanship now so generally applauded. But Senator Vandenberg has set definite limits to the bipartisan policy. "Bipartisanship," he says, covers all U.S. dealings to date with U.N., and U.S. dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...Wodehouse, Britain's fastest-writing, longest-lasting funnyman, arrived in Manhattan with his wife (who calls him "Plummy") and their beige Pekingese, for a six-month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About...
...improvement in writing on a single instructor, it also has the undesirable effect of creating disinterestedness on the part of faculty members outside the English department. By making composition an integral part of the required General Education courses the Committee hopes to make all instructors style-conscious and extend the realm of intelligible writing beyond the Freshman level. Since such a change would be made only with difficulty, a period of experimentation on a small scale is needed to smooth the way for later conversion when the time comes to tell incoming Freshmen that six of the sixteen courses required...
...exempts now houses and apartments and any houses which have not been rented in the last two years. And it continues the Federal rent control only until December 31, with authority for the President to extend this to March 31, if he finds it necessary. Mr. Truman had requested a full year's extension beyond June 30, when the present act expires...
...made will be of an advisory nature, but the ideas of the University on secondary education should not have to be sought. Committees for joint study coupled with a publicizing program, both under the direction of the present committee, are measures which can do much to extend the common principle of General Education to the entire Free Society...