Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs? . . . Is it necessary for you to be gainfully employed? If not, perhaps the greatest service that you can render to the community and to the nation at this time, when countless thousands are out of work, is to have the courage to refuse work for gain, and to prolong your period of study with a view to better equipping yourself in a richer way for future work...
...carries with it many sordid trappings, but few more obnoxious than the faulty memories of the participants. They do little to clarify issues or to reach new truth while they do much to becloud facts and to prolong old enmities...
...period, Yale the second by a score of 3-1; the playoff game ran into three extra periods but ended with the score still 2-2. While appreciating Yale's sportsmanlike willingness to continue the series into a fourth game, the Harvard Athletic Committee has reluctantly determined not to prolong its hockey season...
...STOP!" shouted Comrade Litvinov, blazing-eyed. Rather than prolong a scene which in 1914 might easily have led to war, M. Herbette stopped, then frigidly withdrew...