Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amended the Senate's bill to prolong for one year the life of the Federal Radio Commission; passed it; sent it to conference, where it languished in controversy. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing an appropriation of $4,000,000 for reforestation; sent it to the Senate...
...Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...
Home went this, Swedish, chorus dame. In lovesick hopeless desperation. To save her brother's youthful name She would not give an explanation. The Ralstons find they've done her wrong, and their proud dignity unbending, Must I prolong this silly song? There is, do tell, a happy ending...
...first surrendered he was allowed to take into his cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing...
...various times during the past 50 years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely...