Word: prolongs
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...advance emissary, to ask in the name of Uruguay that the Hoover's prolong their stay, was John D. Hoover, the President-Elect's first cousin, a native of Carlisle, Pa., who has ranched in Uruguay for 22 years...
...Crimson eleven will enter the clash determined to prolong the list of Freshman victories over Yale to three straight. The past two years have seen a smoothly functioning eleven, keyed to a fighting pitch by Coach E. L. Casey to carry off the honors in hotly-contested battles...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...
...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...