Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champions of the loan were skeptical enough to extend themselves to unusual last-minute efforts. President Truman dashed off a special letter of appeal; Secretary of State Byrnes cabled anxiously from Paris; from retirement old Cordell Hull added more arguments to the weight of pressure...
Reaction to a third proposal which would extend rationing to other food items agreed to by the Administration was almost evenly split. Forty-eight percent were pro, 41 percent con and 10 percent undecided...
...modest Victorian himself was confused on one point: just how far down did a blush extend? A Frenchman had once told him that some bashful artists' models blush clear to their toes, but that hearsay evidence was not scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit...
...through the years of war we here in Cambridge have looked forward to what has now at last arrived--the week of Harvard's Victory Commencement. I am happy to be able, through the columns of the CRIMSON, to extend to the members of the Associated Harvard Clubs who are meeting in Boston at this time warmest greetings of the University...
...petty aims. The press leaped to the attack; scalding front page Philippics placed the curse of God and the fourth estate on the heads of the striking unions. Yet public and press alike have been unwilling to recognize the transcendent issues which the strike has spotlighted-issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the points of contention in the recent strike...