Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the comment offered by the six Seniors out for honors and the ten Juniors in Group IV or above this selected, it is hoped that a fair and impartial idea of each field and to some extent an idea of the relative merit or mediocrity of the fields as compared one with another will be gained...
...Vets have learned to be tolerant, to a large extent, by this time and therefore will not lose many nights' sleep over this momentous event but we believe it fitting to challenge their unfairness...
...Doughton last week personally undertook to weed out and allot time to those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...week. Britain's Kings have been toasted by the King's officers sitting down since the days when Britain's wooden ships gave a man so little headroom between decks that he could not stand up at mess. Last week this rule was modified to the extent that when the King's toast is drunk with toasts to the heads of foreign States, all must be drunk standing...
Biggest question mark confronting both business and the stockmarket was not the extent of the spring rise but what will happen after the rise has run its prosperous course. By that time the business atmosphere may be thickening with campaign politics. There is no sound historical evidence that Presidential-election years are worse for business than other years. But both business and the stockmarket will be almost pathologically conscious of politics...