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Word: lengthening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Usage:

...must lengthen the working day, and add to the inducements by increase of overtime wages. We must go into high gear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCERPTS OF SPEECHES TO GRADUATES | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...band struck up Back Home in Indiana as he appeared, the crowd made the trees shake with their racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered through Joe Martin's introduction of Wendell Willkie, cheered Willkie for ten minutes before he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Crowd at Elwood | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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