Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine owners were not unsympathetic, but pointed out that, as their industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...
...fundamental political issue for the 1928 campaign is not prohibition or tariff or foreign relations, but it is legalized extortion and government-protected exploitation. It is a question of how much longer and to what extent the government is going to be controlled by big business at the expense of the rank and file of the Nation...
Daily photographs of the sun's surface are made at the Astronomical Laboratory, and forwarded to Washington with information gathered from the observations. Some of the sun-spots represent disturbed areas two or three times the diameter of the earth in extent, while the greatest one recorded at the Laboratory was about 100,000 miles long...
Dummy scrimmage was the extent of the University football squad's activities yesterday afternoon, and will probably continue to be today in the last full practice session before the contest with Indiana Saturday. The Ineligibles put on Indiana plays against the University players yesterday, and then Teams A and B lined up against each other in dummy drill, the first string combination concentrating its attention on defense work...