Word: lengthens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy to bar a thousand harms and lengthen life...
...Haley worked with the backs all afternoon, in an effort to lengthen out some of the 24-yard punts, and it was learned that he will continue to help Harlow as an unofficial and unpaid assistant for the rest of the season...
...serve notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages and lengthen hours, to uphold code standards. A. F. of L.'s William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from...
...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...