Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mitchell Kennerley took over the Anderson Galleries when it was an obscure and relatively insignificant house; since then he has increased its business to an enormous extent. The Leverhulme sale, held in his rooms two years ago, was probably the most spectacular art auction ever held in the U. S. The American Galleries, nonetheless, is still ahead; its total business averages about $6,000,000 a year. When the two galleries are merged, they will accept bids which aggregate about $9,000,000 every year; thus surpassing, financially at least, famed Christie's, in London, which has, during...
...Hooton, associate professor of Anthropology, will deal with the relationship between anthropology and crime. The extent of this relation is soon to be shown in the results of a general survey in conjunction with the State Department of the physical characteristics of criminals in several states. Among the aspects of crime with which Professor Hooton will deal are the questions of the existence of criminal types, the relationship between physical and mental characteristics, the importance of racial factors, and the influence of heredity...
...hunting party were Edward of Wales and Albert of York, impotent before Fate. In Cooch Behar, unsympathetic Hindus croaked that their Maharani's accident was in reality a judgment upon her for adopting Occidental habits, even to the extent of eloping with her late hus- band...
...captain of its football team in his Freshman year. By means of a more highly organized staff for the purpose, and with the provision of Freshman Halls, we are paying far more personal attention to the Freshmen than ever before, and are constantly doing so to a larger extent, with the result that parents need not worry about sending their sons at 17. For the boys of normal maturity to come at that age and graduate at 21 would be better for the whole body of students
...this extent is Newsstand Buyer Winner's criticism sound: cinemas are intended to appeal to popular rather than to recondite taste; they should be considered according to their intention, rather than according to the tastes of a critical dilettante. With this in mind. TIME will report them accurately, estimate their excellence as precisely as possible...