Word: extendible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike began after I.L.A. officials in New York and other Northeastern ports had signed a truce agreement with the New York Shipping Association to extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry...
Little more than a week has elapsed since the head of the Soviet government arrived in the U.S., and any unprejudiced person can see how much the atmosphere in this country has changed . . . A peculiar contest has developed between American cities and small towns as to who can extend a warmer and more cordial welcome to the emissary of the great Soviet people...
...legends handed down by Livy and Plutarch, Duggan sketches a fascinating if somewhat too breezily modern story. The Rome of 8th century B.C., as described by Duggan, sounds very much like a common European caricature of the 20th century U.S. Rome is slow to war. and quick to extend aid to an enemy once he has been beaten. Its conglomerate citizens-Latin farmers, Sabine hillmen, Etruscan renegades, Greek exiles-are swiftly shaped into a conforming whole; they dress and act alike and are fond of boasting of their superiority over their decadent and vicious neighbors. An Etruscan says...
Such a view of university teaching is held by Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Dawson states that "It is healthy to extend examination to one's faith," as the University demands of the undergraduate. Presumably, such a strong Catholic as Dawson sees questioning as leading to a salutary strengthening of faith; if such examination led to disillusionment and apostasy a Catholic might see the student as ill-fitted for the relativism which the University offers...
...objected strongly to authorizing such a "blank-check" kind of operation, but they were apparently argued down. The resolution was passed, with the provision that it was to apply for one year only, after which time the "experiments" would be thoroughly reviewed. Authorization to extend the Program beyond a year could come only from a new Faculty vote next...