Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus a person with an underactive thyroid need not take thyroxin the rest of his life. Nor need one with a deficient parathyroid forever take calcium-bearing drugs to ward off spasms. If Professor Stone can extend his system of culturing minced glands to include the pancreas and the adrenals, he indicated last week, surgeons would have a simple, permanent cure for diabetes and Addison's disease. But, warned the able doctor: "No type or method of grafting can reasonably be expected to yield 100% successful results...
Harvard men will be given the opportunity to study practical politics at the National Institute at Washington according to a plan proposed last night by Otis T. Wingo speaking at the first meeting of the Liberal Club provided that the University will extend leave of absence to students during the first part of next year...
Professor Koehler explained that co-operation of psychologists with scientists of other fields, would prove valuable to men in fields outside of psychology. "Probably all psychologists are aware of the need of cooperating with other scientists. But since all major problems of psychologists extend naturally into the fields of neighboring sciences, any new insight or discovery in the field of psychology will have essential consequences beyond the limits of our field...
...better if the assignments be judged by the time they take rather than what is to be covered by them because the latter standard is liable to recognize the lighter pieces on the subject which make interesting reading but which extend the assignment over too much time. The lighter works should be only optional to the student. Some courses seem to forget that a student is normally busy and can usually spend his spare time wisely...
Since Sambo IV (Harvard 1908) is suing Brother Sherman (Harvard 1912) for an accounting of their father's estate, it was questionable whether he would extend to Sherman the handsome offer inscribed in the 1908 classbook: "... I have a delightful wife, a delightful home and a delightful hideout, where I shall be glad to offer concealment to any of the Class of 1908 who desire to elude the police...