Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...
...Class of 1942 the Crimson editors extend a most hearty welcome. Although it is always sad to see a class graduate, it is perennially pleasant to receive the new one, for by replacing the other it preserves the four-rung ladder of Harvard undergraduate education. As the newest part in this old instrument, which swings with each year's fresh win yet is braced by the soundness gained from the past, you Freshmen are obliged to reflect on what you will do to make the rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your...
...made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...
...Bacon Act established a Bacon Revenue Board, with adequate powers to rationalize the British bacon industry and extend subsidies for the improvement of antiquated packing houses...
...Polo Bridge, ten miles south-west of Peking. The Japanese believed that Chinese soldiers stationed nearby had fired the shots and soon the two contingents were flat on their bellies, peppering each other. This was exactly the "incident" the Japanese Army had been waiting for as an excuse to extend its control south and west of the province of Jehol, occupied in 1933, to the remaining North China provinces of Chahay, Hopei, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung. Spurning Chinese offers to investigate the clash, Japanese commanders swung their big guns on Peking itself-and the war in China...