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Word: extention (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While content to symbolize the College Man to the extent on his attire, his loyalties do not extend to the tonsorial limit, Dolan admitted, and he has resisted all persuasion to indulge in a crew haircut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Style-setter Answers Summons of Spring with Unfeverish Seersucker Draping | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

Special course instruction is handled by over 200 supervisors drawn from the graduate schools and the ranks of retired teachers. Briefing sessions enable these supervisors to carry out to some extent the general Bureau of Study Counsel technique in their specialized instruction. Fee for this service is $2.50 an hour with scaled rates for men who can't afford the regular sum. General counsel, however, is offered at no cost...

Author: By Jay K. Weiss, | Title: Bitter Commercial Tutoring School Battle Culminated In Establishment of Original Bureau of Supervisors | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

State authorities have worked out a program which they hope will case the somewhat tight situation now existing. "The Department of Public Health, working with the Red Cross . . . is already supplying much-needed plasma and fractional blood, and to as great an extent as possible, whole blood," said Strawson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Calls For 300 Blood Donors | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...baring his economic fangs to the extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Viva Vitriol | 3/11/1947 | See Source »

Since Sherritt Gordon Mines did not have enough planes to rush in prospectors and supplies, it decided to keep the discovery to itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRAIRIES: The Big Strike | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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