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Word: lengthening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results are mixed CHUL will move cautiously and probably advise Rosovsky to lengthen the breakfast hour at the cold breakfast houses without increasing the board costs, Meg Lesser '78, Leverett House CHUL representative, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHUL Poll May Decide Hot Breakfast Controversy | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

...squad is preparing to lengthen its win skein by going to Medellin, Colombia, for a two week training trip. The mermen hope to acclimate their lungs to thin air since the altitude is 6,000 feet in Medellin...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Harvard Teams Have Little Vacation | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

Student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE)--who earlier objected to splitting reading period--favor a calendar proposal that would start and end the school year a week earlier than scheduled, but that would lengthen the winter break rather than the fall semester...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Faculty to Discuss Calendar | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Funnily enough, the candidates' political pratfalls were expected a lot sooner. Ford and Carter came into the campaign like Herblock caricatures. The Hard-Nosed Bumbler ("We must either shorten our Presidents or lengthen our helicopter doors," said Bill Vaughan) was opposed by the Born-Again Peanut Farmer ("I pray 25 times a day," Carter was misquoted by Mort Sahl, "but I've never asked God to make me President because I didn't want to take advantage of the relationship"), with teeth like Bugs Bunny ("That man can eat a pineapple through a tennis racket," observed Comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics: No Laughing Matter | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Whitlock said last night that the Faculty will not lengthen Christmas vacation this year in order to reduce heating costs. Though Rosovsky told The Crimson Tuesday that he was considering such a change, he said last night that he and The Crimson had "misunderstood" each other...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: FAS to Close Buildings Over Mid-Year Break | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

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