Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty yesterday approved unanimously the program to cut ROTC class work to three years and lengthen the summer training to 12 weeks...
...with free space, electricity, and a new paint job by the Library Committee, the Graduate Council has been breaking just about even, serving eight pounds of coffee a week. Charles Stastney 3G, in charge of the lounge for the Council, hopes to keep the room open indefinitley and to lengthen its hours, which now run from...
...that the market is an accurate barometer of business conditions. Last week Government bonds were also weak. Long-term (20year) issues sold below 95 for the first time since issuance, bringing their yield up to 2.8%. Reason for the drop: investors think that the Treasury, in its effort to lengthen debt maturities (TIME, Feb. 9), will boost rates on new long-term issues to 3% and more...
...highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically when another car approaches, brightens them after it passes...
...should have little trouble in the sprints and hurdles, with men like Harrison Dillard (no-meter hurdles), Charles Moore (400-meter hurdles), Andy Stanfield (200 meters) and Mai Whitfield (800 meters). But as the races lengthen from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon, the Swedes, Finns, Slavs and Britons take over...