Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no doubt that sooner or later, if not five, then ten years from now, the college authorities will come to this conclusion and change the length and limits of the vacation. But the impatience of youth is extraordinary, and probably excessive, so it makes us very sad to see another class go by laboring under the enforced guilty conscience of cutting between the Thursday of Thanksgiving and the following week...
...education by such means. But conditions have changed more than is generally understood. It is less easy than it was thirty years ago for a student to find suitable and sufficiently remunerative employment. Furthermore, academic standards have been raised, requirements have been stiffened, and the total length of the educational process has been increased by the great development of the graduate schools. Such time as he can spare from study had better be spent in the society of fellow students and tutors, or in reasonable recreation...
Most foreigners resident for any length of time in Russia have been in the habit of buying rubles illegally from furtive natives for 4? or even less. The new decree is Dictator Joseph Stalin's opening gun in a barrage of repressive measures to stop such illegal "black bourse" trading in torn, blotched and greasy rubles at their real worth. Last week the thousands of foreign pinks in Moscow, mostly pinks living on funds from abroad, joined the embassy and legation set in wailing at what means to them a quintupling of their living costs...
Thus began a letter written and mailed last March by John D. Rockefeller Jr., made public last week by his public relations representatives who still bear the name of their late head, Ivy Lee. The letter went on at length to explain piously why Mr. Rockefeller would no longer give money for denominational use to the church "with which I have all my life been so happily associated...
...Francisco record-the editors of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin rushed a cameraman to the hospital, snapped Lawrence Eugene Quinn Jr., splashed the result down the entire first page of their second news section (see cut), believed they had printed the first full-length, life-size portrait of a human being ever to appear in a newspaper...