Word: prolongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity squash team will prolong its latest winning streak this afternoon at 3:30 in Hemenway Gymnasium when it plays a weak Amherst squad. In the past, the Amherst match has always provided the varsity with a breathing spot on its schedule, and this year will be no exception...
...official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where it can be achieved with least agony, and they weaken the preservation of free public education throughout the south...
With heart attacks and strokes causing about half of all U.S. deaths, eight eminent physicians (including five past presidents of the American Heart Association*) issued last week a check list of danger signals. Their belief is that while medical science gropes for definitive measures, attention to these signals "will prolong life for many at this time." First comes heredity: granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being...
...Cape Canaveral the Air Force successfully test fired part of a new air-to-ground weapons system called the Bold Orion. Slated for the Strategic Air Command, the revolutionary nuclear-tipped missile will prolong the useful life of SAC bombers by enabling them to fire at targets 1,000 miles distant-from points outside an enemy's radar screen. Last week's shot, fired by a supersonic B58 Hustler (whose sonic boom startled beach residents) was a one-stage version of the new weapon. The two-stage version, fired for the first time a few days earlier...
...happy prospect, even if one has a life-time to pay it back. The loan, ever present, being reduced by a piddling sum each year, could turn into a hateful obligation fairly soon. Knowledge that the repayment is less than one per cent of total income will only prolong the indebtedness, not diminish...