Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create a greater demand. Very few of our important food products are advertised to such a limited extent as cheese...
Last week Capt. Franklin D. Karns and Lieutenant Commander Dupree J. Friedell, of the U. S. S. Colorado, were also reduced though not to the extent of losing their titles. Captain Karns was lowered eight numbers in rank and Lieutenant Commander Friedell lost 25 numbers. Thus Captain Karns, who, after 37 years of unmarred service, was well up on the list of Captains from whom Rear Admirals are chosen, faced at least a postponement of his chance to fly an Admiral's flag...
...that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty of contempt and fined to the extent...
...what extent has Canada progressed since her Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres...
...from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that the deacons had ordered class sessions discontinued at 10 p. m. Mondays. (This was after they had discovered members of the class sprawled deliriously on the church building floor at 2 a. m. one Tuesday.) The Monday that Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh reached Manhattan a woman went into ecstasies...