Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least 144 tankers just to handle the substitute oil shipments from the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has 34 in reserve. Last week the U.S. took...
...creed of the gerontologists is not John Donne's imaginative challenge-"Death, thou shalt die" -but "Death, thou shalt wait." Advances in control of infectious diseases, public-health measures, daring surgery and painstaking rehabilitation have combined to lengthen the overall U.S. life expectancy (at birth) from 47 years in 1900 to 69 today. Since life expectancy mounts as the hazards of successive age ranges are passed, a U.S. woman of 65 nowadays still has an average of 15 years ahead, and a man has 13. This...
Yale College may lengthen its final examinations from two to three hours next year if the faculty approves a recommendation of the Course of Study Committee...
...Committee on Educational Policy is expected to decide today on its recommendation to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences concerning the Student Council's proposal to lengthen the midterm recess...
...Council's plan would lengthen the break between terms by at least three days, the extra day being taken from the spring term reading period. The CEP is expected either to support the calendar revision without modification or to advise its outright defeat...