Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ages as the players who made "Underworld," one of the tastiest cinematic hors d'oeuvres of all time. Meanwhile, however, they are devoting their efforts to making other and, it must be admitted with a wistful sigh, worse pictures. But since the decline from "Underworld" is of considerable extent their products...
...incarcerated without cause in the prisons [of Lower Tyrol] and are released only when they have surrendered their chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold revamped in detail the familiar fact that Italianization of the Lower Tyrol (or Higher Adige) has been ruthlessly carried out, even to the extent of altering from German into Italian the very names of streets and the lettering on tableware in formerly Austrian hotels...
...number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge which depend to a great extent upon Harvard for their volunteer workers are handicapped by a lack...
...took place in the boot & shoe and the cotton goods industries, and were partly due to seasonal influences." Chicago: "Employment at industrial plants . . . showed an aggregate decline of 0.7%. . . . The comparatively small curtailment was the result of an upturn in the demand for iron & steel, which to a large extent counteracted the continued slowing-down in other industrial lines . . ."; San Francisco: In California, 781 firms employed 136,342 in December 1927; and 145,286 in December 1926; in Oregon, 166 firms employed 25,642 in December 1927 and 27,060 in December 1926. (This trend, from as far back...
...Little, barber at the Harvard Union, that dandruff has increased considerably since Christmas, compared with former years. Little's reasons for the fact are as follows. "The students were inside more and got less exercise, therefore the scalp dried up. Then, they neglected their hair to a great extent, being more interested in their studies than in outside engagements. And, of course, when more blood went to the brain, less went to the scalp. Anyhow I see more dandruff at Harvard than at any other place where I have worked." Little has been a barber for over 20 years...