Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy is based, in the face of the great Chinese hordes, on forcing the enemy to lengthen his supply line in the areas where we can attack...
...enlisting during the year, Bender stated, one can choose the branch of the armed forces one l serves in. On the other hand, he added, it may lengthen the time of service by as much as two years...
...which consists chiefly of a microphone, a tape-recorder and a playback amplifier, delays the reports on their way to the brain. Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay, Dr. Fairbanks can lengthen this interval as much as he wants to. He can also make the sounds from the amplifier so loud that they drown out the sounds that reach the brain through the normal channels...
...Defense Department will soon ask Congress to pass a Universal Military Service Bill and to lengthen the period of service for draftees from 21 to 27 months, Chairman Carl M. Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee said yesterday...
...Washington, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...