Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Government, in my five years in office, has never interfered to the extent of a tittle or a scintilla in any Irish matter . . . .I pledge my faith and honor upon this...
...believe it will, to a reasonable extent. The period isn't long enough for a fellow to tire of loafing. And it isn't long enough to discourage cramming, during most of the two weeks. Certain courses before Christmas suggest reading to cover twenty years of history after the vacation and before mid-years even though that may not be the more interesting period. Of course, that doesn't mean it is impossible to do what one may want to do. Also, some days are broken up by a class or two as much as when classes were regular...
...three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy...
...these attempts dishearten. Set the mark higher, and ring the bell. For really, if a man, after three years study, cannot compose a clever theme of five words or less, the critics of higher education are to some extent justified...
...geratest problems," said Doctor Hopkins, "which the American college faces in the present day is to preserve its function as an educational institution to an extent that shall give its men the proper outlook on life and shall steel their wills and harden their minds against the tendencies toward materialism which are bred in a period of so great economic surplus as is the present period in America...