Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some offices, on the theory that it was better for the help to have department store credit than to be burdened with various installment plans, the managements cooperated to the extent of allowing McCreery representatives to address employes in groups. Most applicants are in the $25-to-$50-per-week salary bracket, and their charge accounts are strictly limited, generally to an amount equal to one week's salary...
...experts. Up to 1933 the enforcement was worse than the laws. Officially entrusted to a special director of the Department of Trade & Commerce, control over insurance companies frequently fell into the hands of lawyer-politicians who were not above doing a good turn at the expense of policyholders. The extent to which Illinois had become an insurance playground became abruptly clear in 1932, when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which...
...extent of the collection can be easily judged from the amount of material now on view in the exhibit. The first play given, "The Promised Land," was written by Allan Davis '07 and is shown in its book form. It was published privately by the Dramatic Club as were other of the early plays. Side of the book is a newspaper picture of the cast...
Madness After Childbirth has steadily increased since 1931 to such extent that in some communities, one out of 500 women is affected. Hard times with "their immediate and remote effects upon personal and domestic harmony" make the additional stress of childbearing more than some women can endure, said Drs. Louis J. Karnosh & Justice M. Hope of Cleveland...
...chief reason for this is that the University has as its avowed purpose the acquisition of "eminent" individuals for its high positions. Eminence is apparently never measured by the degree to which an older man may be helpful to younger men still learning the fundamentals, but rather by the extent by which the borders of learning have been extended. The aspiring "eminents" in the University, unless supremely certain of themselves, care not to spend their time with students. The concrete evidence of this is that the tutorial work in Physics is farcical, the adviser in chemistry is very little more...