Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place it should be understood that the Conference has been framed from the point of view of the College undergraduates. Editors of the undergraduate dailies take part only to the extent necessary for organization. It can readily be seen that the undergraduates as a nebulous mass would be unable to assemble any such group as the Conference will draw, and it is for this purpose alone that the "Crimson" has taken the initiative at Harvard...
...opinion a vital necessity!" To this, British Reds replied by chalking the street in front of the German Embassy in huge letters: "RIBBENTROP MUST GO!" He not only did not go but soon moved in the set of Mrs. Ernest Simpson and King Edward to an extent which started Mayfair wondering and whispering about whether His Majesty's lady could possibly be a "German agent." In the House of Commons excitable William Gallacher, then as now the sole Communist M. P. (see p. 23), stormed: "[The Ambassador] comes with his hands red with murder!" apropos the execution in Germany...
...having risen from 5? per Ib. last May, reached a nine-year high at between 12? and 13? per Ib. Basic and well-established reason for cocoa's hot market was the great increase in world consumption coupled with a shortage of production in West Africa. The precise extent of the shortage remained a matter of conjecture (TIME, Jan. 18). Traders to whom cocoa's market seemed too warm for comfort pondered the following circumstances: 1) tipsters and outside speculators were playing a larger part than usual in cocoa trading; 2) for weeks, every time the price...
...told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with the wreck and the rescue are so interesting technically that they compensate to a large extent for the bromidic situations and embarrassingly obvious dialog which lay the ground for them. Noteworthy is the photographic exposition of the inventions for the safety of undersea craft-the operation of a specially marked buoy which, released from the deck and carrying a line, enables a wrecked submarine to denote...
Adequate proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...