Word: extendible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -- President Ensenhower's billion-dollar program to preserve and extend the nation's educational resources, outlined to Congress today, may be in for tough sledding on Capitol Hill...
John H. Finley, Jr. '14, Master of Eliot House, agreed that the measure could be considered only as a temporary one. He said that the concept of the resident House was "an integral part" of College life, and that the plan, even if adopted, should not extend past the completion of the eighth House, scheduled for the fall...
...Agriculture Department, the farm's entire crop acreage will be put into grasses or other conservation covers for a minimum of five years. Maximum rental on any one farm: $10.000. If the bid experiment works out satisfactorily over the next several weeks, Benson said, he will extend the plan to other states next year...
...posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem: Moslem competition. Says he: "Both African and Asian Moslems in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship...
...till 1991, when it would be divided between Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week, weary of sitting on a fortune that was doing nobody any good, the foundation's trustees filed a brief with the legislature, asked that they be allowed to use the money to extend the institute and thus help the modern version of the young artificer that Franklin originally had in mind. The amount involved...