Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey bases his objections on two points, first, that by controlling the appointments of operators, Harvard is beginning to extend an insidious domination over the hospital, and second, that as its first operator Harvard has chosen a German refugee, from the medical school. It is plain that Harvard wishes to appoint these technicians itself in order to insure expert handling of the delicate and costly apparatus, and also to give its young roentgenologists practical experience before placing them permanently...
...argument against American aid to the Allies in Friday's editorial carries the seeds of its own destruction. On the one hand, you are willing to gamble on the chance of an Allied victory without our aid. And on the other, you think we can at the same time "extend democracy to every American" and "make this hemisphere impregnable...
Lounging in Chief of Current Information Michael McDermott's office, listening to dance music on the radio while they waited for releases, newsmen knew that soon President Roosevelt would again condemn an act of aggression (the eighth German aggression that he has deplored), would again extend the Neutrality Act to include Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg (third extension in six months), would again act to freeze the credits in the U. S. of the invaded countries. They knew that the President's press conference next day would be crowded, grave, unrevealing -and it was, with about 250 correspondents filing...
Father Knickerbocker will extend the official 1940 New York greeting, "Hello Folks," to over 2000 Harvard alumni when convene today for the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...moreover, Sibelius is able to pack climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius...