Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greatest Catastrophe." Few U. S. citizens appeared to realize the extent of the flood disaster. During the last fortnight, indeed, the flood did not enjoy a "good press." The Snyder-Gray trial and the Lindbergh transatlantic flight elbowed it onto the inside pages of many a newspaper. Nevertheless, observers united in terming it the greatest of peacetime national catastrophes of all time...
...while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning I am feeling first rate, strong and vigorous and as happy as any man ought...
...year's undergraduate body". The inclusion of this survey of modern education is extremely laudable, for the probability is that its conclusion will be more appreciated and better understood by men who have spent a year away from college and who are not entangled in its mechanism to the extent of losing perspective, than by members of the class whose representatives drafted the summary. Fortified with this addition the Report of 1926 may well claim superiority over its predecessors...
...loss is still only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student body. The proposed hall has, besides, the advantage over Memorial Hall of a better location. But all progress waits upon the student poll...
...highly paid experts on college crews and athletic crews of all kinds. Criticism is passed on sports and sportsmen in a perfunctory sort of way, but it remained for the sporting columnists of fifty years ago, in the college papers, to carry personal constructive criticism to its greatest extent...