Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent back-sliding and saving considerable energy...
...that a common desire to end these allegations has been evinced on all sides, the future augurs well for eastern football, represented to a large extent as it is by the Ivy League members. If, and the if is all important, member coaches can be brought to accept definite training seasons, limited spring practice, standard rules, etc., the Ivy League will work. It has had an auspicious birth and has the practical support of seven great Universities...
...Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended. There was not a single U. S.-born wife among the career men on his staff. Beset by thoughts of tattling tongues and divided loyalties, he complained...
...with a 25-lb. can of rice, can upon can of corn syrup and started a series of week-long dietary experiments. For four days she eats only two cups of boiled rice and corn syrup in small doses. This eliminates sulfur compounds from her system to such an extent that none can be detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau...
...might be put. Three approaches seem possible today; the establishment of a Graduate School of Journalism, the opening of a new undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then, too, the will's phraseology must be kept in mind. Even today it is possible to see the loose constructionists and the strict going to the mat about the problem...