Word: extendible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Nasser . . . said that Egypt was determined to score one triumph after another in order to enhance what he called 'the grandeur of Egypt.' And he coupled his action with statements about his ambition to extend his influence from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf . . . His seizure of the Canal Company was an angry act of retaliation against fancied grievances...
Arabism's Hope. Nasser's position was not without its own strength. In Egypt and the Arab world, the 38-year-old strongman who boasts that he will "extend the Arab homeland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf," became overnight the most vaunted hero since Saladin. Thirty-two governments, said his semi-official news service, acclaimed his deed, ranging from Communist China to Franco's Spain. Saudi Arabia's King Saud sent Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser...
...regard to the rest of the summer term, Wood said it would be financially impossible this year to extend the weekend hours of either library. The personnel and other costs of keeping a place like Lamont open just will not allow it under the present scale of tuition charges, he added...
...present discussion over Summer School library hours is reminiscent of a debate that often arises during the winter term of Harvard College. After repeated demands that Lamont stay open later on weekdays, weekends, and especially before exam periods, students last winter won the concession that the library would extend its hours to midnight every week-night and 2 to 10 p.m. on Sundays...
...reactor, owned jointly by the Armour foundation and 24 companies whose interests extend from food preserving to watchmaking, will hasten the new knowledge on which U.S. industry is building an Atomic Age technology. In the atomic furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...