Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...some old manuscripts. An itinerant actor named Striese undertakes to present the play, and rehearsals are well under way, when Mrs. Gollwitz and Paula unexpectedly return to town. Mrs. Gollwitz is very shrewish and strongly opposed to the stage; hence the professor writes her a note, urging her to prolong her visit, as the maid, Rosa, has left to attend a funeral. But Mrs. Gollwitz arrives just in time to find Rosa reading the note, and detects the professor's deceit...
Another improvement over the Holmes Field track is the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. This has been made on the south side by prolonging the west end two hundred and eight-five feet and the east end seventy-six. It has also been proposed to prolong the west end of the north side sufficiently to enable the quarter-mile to be run with only one turn by starting at the beginning of the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. But this change will probably not be made, since it would place the finish of the race at an extreme...