Word: lengthening
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...group will initially consider two schedules. One would cut three days from the spring reading period and add them between the fall and spring terms. The other would begin the academic year a week earlier, add three days between terms, and lengthen Thanksgiving recess to a long weekend...
Should either of the prospective calendar changes be put into effect, a three-day interim between the final examination and the first day of classes would be scheduled. Neither would lengthen the spring term, and students would be free to work as early as in previous years...
...past, several groups, including the Student Council, have campaigned for extending the hours during reading and exam periods. And as recently as last week, the Council refused to endorse a Union Committee's proposal to lengthen the weekday hours for the entire year, believing that its goal of permanent long hours during exam periods was more likely to be achieved...
...President Eisenhower recommended lengthening high school and college courses, perhaps to five years each, to meet the needs of modern life, lamented to reporters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver that "college education is not provided free and high school education is." The President's remarks got a cool reception from educators who believe that the solution is to reorganize the schools, not lengthen the years of study...
...traveler, and I am getting fed to the teeth. You learn not to deal with representatives of airlines in small towns. They were chosen for their looks and have taken courses in charm, but they misinform you about routes and connections, which may throw your whole trip off or lengthen it 50 per cent, and the reservations they make may not stick...