Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night when the leaves of the plant which they infest are covered with dew. At such times the spores are produced in immense numbers and with a fresh breeze sweeping down from the mountains, they are carried all over the country side, so that they often infest a large extent of land in a single night. One of the interesting things about the production of these spores is that they follow a schedule almost as regular as that of trains. While I was in the, Philippines, I could set my alarm clock for 12.30 at night and get out into...
...cerebrum (the tumor operation had nothing to do with the cerebellum) is divided from front to back into two hemispheres, a left and a right, which function almost alike. Each hemisphere is composed of five lobes, termed frontal, parietal, occipital, temporosphenoidal and central. Each is separated to a certain extent from its neighbor by fissures, or depressions, and each is also made up of elevations called convolutions and of lesser depressions...
...proposed merger because of its greater geographical extent and traffic possibilities would have a more stable earning capacity than have the five members that would join...
...Cases are in some respects similar to the Notes. In the Case department, however, briefer comment is made upon a large number of recent cases and is made up to a great extent of citations of authority for the various decisions in the history of each case. In selecting cases for comment in the Review, the editors examine the decisions of the appellate courts of all the individual states, the United States, Great Britain Canada, and Australia...
...acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...