Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council tonight will consider a plan which would abolish single holidays throughout the academic year in order to lengthen Christmas or spring vacations. This issue, discussed earlier in the fall, returns to the group's agenda after consideration by Neale Bringhurst '51, National Student Association representative, and Louis B. McCagg '52, chairman of the Student Affairs Committee...
Aside from the fact that attack requires more men than defense, when the projected counteroffensive got under way supply lines would lengthen and the front would rapidly widen out. The manpower requirement seemed to be about twelve to 15 divisions-not bobtailed Johnsonized divisions, but fully manned. In Europe the U.S. was taking on another commitment of five to ten divisions (see below), which were as necessary there, to fortify the free world's position, as the actual fighting divisions in Korea...