Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tomarkin and his fellow scientists would seem to have a thankless task on their hands in striving to find means with which to prolong life and crush out sickness and disease. As human nature apparently stands at present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student...
...envelope which is included with them, to Thayer Cummings '26, chairman of the Sophomore election committee at 77 Mt. Auburn Street before midnight tomorrow. Provided that 60 percent of the class has voted by that time, the elections will be announced Wednesday morning. Otherwise it will be necessary to prolong the voting until the necessary number of voters has been obtained...
...when the International Court is ready to settle the whole matter in a peaceable manner. The Turks forget that they and their diplomacy are well known all over the world and especially in Europe; thus, with everyone on the alert, the worst effect of their scheming will be to prolong the conference. If, however, the Turks are as anxious for peace as they have so consistently stated-and this is probably true, because they have everything to gain from an early peace-they will certainly allow the Allies and the United States to fight the matter out in the World...
...target for practice by the giant Mississippi, most powerful ship afloat. Under radio control she will be given a run for her life, dodging, turning and racing her engines in a final effort to escape. Five-inch guns, then 14-inch rifles will pour their fire into her. To prolong her agonies special shells will be used and wireless-controlled pumps will try to keep her above water. If by some desperate chance she survives, the once proud Iowa will be sold as junk. Night attacks upon the Panama Canal defenses, thought to be impregnable, will be made under...
...Debt owed by Britain to America has been settled. The British Government has decided not to rake up the ashes of the past and thus prolong a futile discussion. Harvey's remarks will therefore go ignored...