Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to allow the reading period to extend for its usual two and a half weeks and to allow the mid-year examination period its alloted time, the second semester will not begin until February...
...meeting of candidates for the managerial posts of the Freshman crew will be held in the H. A. A. today at 1.46 o'clock. The competition, will extend over the first half of the crew season...
Zipf, who recently received a grant from the General Education Board to extend his researches into the field of Chinese, maintains that the "conspicuousness" (that is, roughly, the difficulty of pronunciation) of any word, syllable, or sound is inversely proportionate to its relative frequency, and that as any word is used more often, it becomes polished and more easily pronounceable. He cites "auto" for "automobile" and "I wanna go" for "I want to go" as obvious examples, and points out that among 100,000 connected words the term "master" occurs only 13 times, while the term "mister", familiar...
...celebration last fall by philosophers from all parts of the country of the seventieth birthday of Professor Dewey brought him prominently before the American public. His publications extend back; to his first book "Psychology", which appeared in 1886. His more recent publications include "A Quest for Certainty" and "Sources of a Science of Education", both published in 1929 While at Harvard Professor Dewey will give a series of ten public lectures on a subject not yet determined, and he will also give seminary instruction to graduate students in Philosophy...
Though his work at first will be concerned largely with the Senior class he hopes to extend his study and usefulness to all undergraduates. He pointed out that the four years of college life are the most important in the development of the college-bred individual and that they should be utilized in a thoughtful manner if they are to contribute the full benefit of which they are potential...