Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was part of a deep conviction: that the U.S. is big and strong enough to fight a hard war and still keep the home fires burning. But last week, as casualty lists began to lengthen in newspapers from Framingham to Bellingham. one cold truth settled over the country. The nation was now spending, at a rapidly rising rate, something which no nation is young enough or big enough or rich enough to spend lavishly: its young manhood...
...vascular (blood vessel) diseases. Dr. Gumpert asserts that these and other diseases of age can be prevented or mitigated by modern geriatrics (the science of diseases of the aged). He also places great hope in Russian Biochemist Alexander Bogomoletz' ACS serum (TIME, Jan. 17), which may lengthen life by delaying the aging of connective tissue. But man's best hope of living longer, says Dr. Gumpert, is in his mental attitude toward death. The present system of life-insurance rates, retirement, pensions, etc., in Gumpert's view, "makes life an embarrassing preparation for the hour of death...
...card for today shows Lowell tangling with the NROTC and Adams opposing Company E. On Monday Companies A and E will meet while Lowell will attempt to lengthen its lead in a game with Company C. At that point the season will be half over and all teams will begin their stretch drive for the championship. The last games of the season are to be played on August...
...John L. Lewis, who has done more than any other to lengthen the war and weaken our economic basis for the postwar world...
...Every new campaign, every combat lesson in World War II has tended to lengthen, rather than shorten, the training period necessary to make an army. Of all the U.S. Army's infantry divisions (more than 70, and climbing toward 100 at last published reports), not more than seven have had battle experience in Africa, New Guinea, the Solomons or the Aleutians...