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...girls grow at the same rate from the nose up. But "it is characteristic of anthropoids and man that bodily growth in the female practically ceases at puberty, whereas, in the male, it continues for several years." Therefore the upper lips and jaws of boys have time to lengthen, while girls more often remain "baby faced...
Paris, Saturday, March 16--The Chamber of Deputies, whipped into line by threats of a swiftly rising man-power in Germany, early today gave Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin a smashing victory, approving his proposal to lengthen the term of compulsory military service to two years, from one as at present...
...that time. The majority of the reading assignments are with a little application easily completed within the allotted time and the subtraction of three or four days should cause no suffering, and might easily add to the pleasure of the holiday season. While it might be wise not to lengthen the holidays before Christmas it seems highly possible to add the necessary days at the end to complete a two week period. Elementary courses would certainly find it difficult to be handicapped seriously be a missed...
Agitations to lengthen Harvard's traditionally short Christmas vacations have been afoot recently, both among the student body and in the Student Council, it was revealed yesterday...
...petition read as follows: "All those that believe the petition to lengthen the breakfast hour was unfair because it will endanger the jobs of the student waiters, please sign the following: 'We, the undersigned, would like to have breakfast until 9 o'clock, but if this would cause the student waiters to lose their jobs, we are willing to withdraw the request made, on the condition that the Union Committee will attempt to solve the situation in some way that will not involve the jobs of the student waiters...