Word: lengthens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...touch football, the season will begin much earlier this year than last year in order to lengthen the season and allow for the increasing interest in this sport. During the fall, tournaments will be held in tennis and golf so that teams may be selected before the spring season when the inter-House competition gets under...
...Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into the full five-hour trading day, but in mercy to frazzled brokerage house clerks, whose objection to all-night work without extra pay threatened to become a general strike, the Exchange will be closed every Saturday until after Labor...