skeletal extension

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Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

Question 1 of 8

Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

Self-marriage is the ultimate brand extension of a self-obsessed, selfish populus.
Why Singles Should Say ‘I Don’t’ to The Self-Marriage Movement|Tim Teeman|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.
To GOP Congress, as Usual, It’s Welfare on the Chopping Block|Monica Potts|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But only for the family; inmates cannot be awarded more than $10,000 because of an extension of the Son of Sam Law.
A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is also, by extension, a show about the cultural impact of religion.
The Good Wife’s Religion Politics: Voters Have No Faith in Alicia's Atheism|Regina Lizik|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

What he meant was that he personally, and by extension all Christians, should not be judgmental.
Is Pope Francis Backpedaling on Gays?|Jay Michaelson|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And now let me come to the second problem we opened up in connection with college education—the problem of its extension.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was the well-known extension en seconde; a favourite trick among Parisian swordsmen of the Romantic school.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
And it may safely be said that with its improvement, has arisen also the extension and wide spread practice of music generally.
Violins and Violin Makers|Joseph Pearce
An octave coupler without such extension is incomplete and is no more honest than a stop which only goes down to Tenor C.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
No Briton rejoiced more sincerely than this provincial American in the extension of the Empire.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker