Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechs will give Germany a good run for their money. They have no end of munitions and good fortifications. But they could not hold out for any great length of time...
...second opinion was delivered by Associate Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen, only woman on the U. S. appeals bench, who stands well enough with the Administration to have been mentioned last year as a possible Supreme Court appointee. Sturdy Miss Allen laid down the first judicial yardstick of the lengths to which employers need go in trying to bargain with a union, displaying as much anxiety about quasi-judicial practices as that expressed last week by Charles Evans Hughes (see col. 2). Said she: "The statute merely requires the employer to negotiate sincerely. The sincerity is to be tested...
Lowell finished nearly a length behind in 7:11, a deck length in front of Kirkland, as Leverett trailed in fourth place. In the finals of the second crew races another Eliot crew beat Winthrop by a length. Kirkland and Dunster were in third and fourth place...
Although the Elephants got the jump at the start in the feature brush and hung on to their lead, there was a hot tussle for second. At one point more than a length behind, the Bellboys but on the pressure in the last few hundred yards to nip the Deacons by a deck length...
...particularly appropriate time that President Conant has set forth at some length his opinions on the subject of propaganda. If ever there were an educational mission for Harvard it is in teaching her sons not to believe everything that everybody tells them. Today the nation is beset on all sides by people and interests of every shade and color, bent on selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance...