Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warm Springs Foundation, to extend the banquet invitation. President Roosevelt regretted that he could not leave Washington, "but I do want to tell you . . . that [your] aim happens to be one of the undertakings closest to my own heart. It is largely through the work of some men who have practiced your specialty that America and the world have progressed so far in the prevention of deformity and in the bringing up of 'straight' children...
...Last year Harvard bunched some of its scrappy little scholarships into a few fat $1,000 fellowships for brilliant students with scanty resources. President Conant would make that practice an established policy, extend it to all departments of the university...
...Give Mr. Roosevelt power to extend the life of emergency agencies such as the PWA and NRA as was sought by the administration...
...Court's knockout of the oil clause of the Recovery Act, Donald Richberg, "assistant President," promptly warned: "Any lawyer should be careful to interpret an opinion of the Supreme Court as a statement of the law covering the subject matter of the opinion and not to extend its implications for the purpose of prophesying what the Court may or may not decide in other cases upon a different subject matter...
...other grounds also, the present situation appears unfair, for in the last few years the University has dealt liberally with infractions of the rule. Now some Juniors and Seniors are officially, to all practical intents and purposes, allowed to extend their vacations with impunity, while their classmates are threatened with disciplinary action for doing likewise. Certainly, the Administrative Board at its meeting tomorrow should do no more than warn the offenders and use the data to determine its future policy...