Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again the state legislature has before it a proposal to extend the governor's term from two to four years. Although a similar measure passed two years ago, state law requires that a constitutional amendment pass two legislative sessions before it goes to the voters. While last year's bill was subverted by a bit of parliamentary skullduggery, the proposal will go on a state-wide referendum if it gets by the present session...
Mink on the Bed. As a businesswoman, Hattie was as shrewd as she was stylish. She knew intuitively when to extend credit and when to collect bills (she once successfully sued the late Jimmy Walker for his wife's unpaid $12,059 balance). She often quite literally sold the clothes off her back to eager customers, but would never allow a woman to buy a dress that seemed unsuitable. Her surplus energy spilled into other businesses, all of them successful: hats, jewelry, antiques, perfumes-even chocolate candy. By last year Hattie Carnegie Inc. was doing a gross business...
...team, and not especially good basketball. Several times the margin was narrowed to eleven points, but then an easy lay-up would be missed and the Indians would open up the lead again. The fifteen-point margin at the end is a deceptive figure, for the winner did not extend themselves and used substitutes liberally...
Radcliffe's high-flying hoopsters will attempt to extend their winning streak Saturday in the annual inter-collegiate play-day at Wheaton. The undefeated basketballers will face Wheaton, Simmons, and Bouve in half-length games...
...decision to extend the inter-term vacation at the expense of the spring reading period and a proposed Thanks-giving vacation, was passed on the results of the student poll last week, preceded by unofficial conferences with the Administration...