Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of over 1000 birds sent from Western China to the Agassiz Museum by Dr. J. F. Rock last summer, is being classified at the Museum, and preliminary announcement of its extent and value will be made within a week, it has been announced to the CRIMSON by Dr. Outram Bangs '84, ornithologist and Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...item above represents the extent of the loss suffered by Oilman Sinclair & associates. Only Congress can reimburse them for their outlay on Teapot Dome, the court holding that the illegality of their lease voids their equity in tanks, pipelines, oil stores, etc., acquired under same...
Queen. The extent of her surprise may be gauged, therefore, when she was introduced to a perfectly ordinary woman dressed in perfectly ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...
...honor of your presence at a play by William Hurlbut.*The principal performers are Beth Merrill and Philip Merivale; and the subject is sex. Mr. Belasco has held U. S. attention for many years, and sex has held it even longer. But both, unfortunately, have lost to some extent their novelty for playgoers. Time was when a Belasco production, correct to the last curl of cigaret smoke, was considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much...
...some extent, however, the pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...