Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country had seen "an ex-city political boss [meaning Walter F. Brown of Toledo] picked up in Ohio and made Assistant Secretary of Commerce." This man was now running the Hoover campaign in Ohio. Therefore, "the campaign of Mr. Hoover for President is being paid for to a large extent out of the Treasury of the United States...
...saber-tooth tiger was a common animal in North America during the Pleistocene age, but the genus is now extent. The specimen now in the Museum was found in Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles. The region was formerly a tar pool, but is now an asphalt deposit. Animals became trapped in the tar pool when they came to eat other animals caught...
...latest seed from University Hall been wasted. Then in the future only the appreciative would have the opportunities presented by the Tutorial System at their commond. While it is difficult to draw the line between the scholastic strata, the Reading Period itself has revealed that it is to some extent possible...
...that the estate of the late Warren G. Harding would be investigated for traces of the missing Continental Oil Company bonds which were part of Sinclair's contribution to the campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected of receiving bribes shows the extent to which dishonesty had spread in the administration of that time. Even if the president himself was not implicated, it is apparent that he made no effort to prevent...
True, Kit Carson is pretty well debunked by the present writer, but this would seem to be the result of the unwise writing of his predecessors, the dime novelists, and to some extent of his contemporaries, the scenario writers. These, together with the professional bravadoes who belonged to the Wild West rather than to the Old West, have made Carson, a very simple, almost meek man, into an entirely impossible character...