Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of war, tempting trade opportunities may be offered to our people to supply materials which would prolong the war. I do not believe that the American people will wish for abnormal, increased profits that temporarily might be secured by greatly extending our trade in such materials; nor would they wish the struggles on the battlefield to be prolonged because of profits accruing to a comparatively small number of American citizens...
...latter difficulty has in the past been one of the most serious with which Sir Wilfred and his colleagues have had to cope. He stated that it had often seemed to him unkind "to prolong a life unless we can make it worth while." However, he pointed out that the natives are by nature a very hardy race and added that he had known of only one suicide during his entire experience in Labrador...
...over me. I kiss his ring. I touch his hand extended. I prolong the touch a second. I wish I might never have to wash my right hand again. It seemed to me the next most beautiful thing to seeing Jesus Christ Himself. The Pope passes to the Bronx lady to my right...
Many women have been accustomed to prolong the ecstasy of their genuflection at Buckingham Palace by performing an elaborate, graceful curtsy with what is known in professional British Court circles as "the minuet effect." This...
...Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died in 1930, he had given the Institute some $10,000,000, more than a third of his fortune, and made it the best-equipped plant research centre...