Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrier-like Inspector General Maxima Weygand asked the Supreme Council of National Defense to extend the period of compulsory military service from a year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
...motor. An inclined elevator leads from the "deck" (floor) to the roof. Out of each end of the dock for nearly a half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco...
Harvard's next president, James Bryant Conant, brings to his position the executive training acquired as head of the Department of Chemistry, and intensive knowledge of his special field; in addition to these qualifications, according to these who know him, he possesses wide interests which extend to the educational and cultural fields he is to lead in the future. His election, on these grounds, is a well calculated choice. In order to dispel the fears aroused by Professor Conant's devotion to his own subject, the daily press has made much of the fact that President Eliot also...
...cannot be a success unless it has the support and cooperation of students and teachers in the field of economics. We are most anxious to have contributions of articles or shorter notes for publication from the advanced students and younger economists at Harvard; and we are also anxious to extend our circulation so as to include as many American economists as possible. The subscription charge for one year has been set at 7 shillings (about $1.40 at present rates of exchange...
...discordant elements into the movement now will dilute its strength and directly help strengthen the British hegemony. What next in India, none dare predict with certainty. This much may be asserted, Ghandi's place in the hearts of millions in India in secure. Even his Indian opponents may well extend him the due credit for his long, painful services to his people. Anup S. Dhillon