Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard. There he rides herd on eager reporters who come to steep themselves in history, literature, sociology and talk with visiting pundits. This job took more time than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons who have never seen tough-minded, tough-muscled Poet...
...Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
When Jesus no longer...
...lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...
Said partly converted Mr. Williamson: "The reductions offered, particularly over the longer distances . . . will create new travel...