Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan under the guidance of President Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and President W. S. Parish of Humble Oil & Refining Co., had asked him to go on the difficult mission. They represented ownership of three-quarters of the Oklahoma wells and to that extent expected success for Emissary Collins...
...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
Pending this light, or illuminant on from some other source, the public is still in the dark as to the extent to which the Anti-Saloon League and other non-governmental organizations influence the government in its work of prohibition. It can draw only one conclusion from the constant struggles which go on between those in authority; the blame must lie to a certain extent with a law which causes such difficulties. It is obvious that any such innovation must at the start create preliminary quarrels; but Prohibition has had time to form, if not complete harmony, at least...
...inauspicious playing conditions rolled up a total of 22 runs and at the same time committed ten misplays afield. The entire total of miscues came in the last two games against William and Mary and Williams, in the first of which eleventh hour Crimson hobbles accounted to a large extent for the unexpected victory of the Southerners. In the contest at Williamstown last Saturday, Williard Howard '28, converted infielder, held the opposing hits well in check and succeeded in warding off any serious damage in spite of the frequent flaws in his support...
...Extent. From Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf is 570 miles air line but 1,090 miles by the river line. Southwestern Illinois, western Tennessee and Mississippi, eastern Missouri and Arkansas, northern and central Louisiana have been flooded. Hardest hit has been Louisiana. Two Louisiana parishes were inundated when the Poydras levee was dynamited; 5,000,000 acres in north Louisiana were under water last week with 4,000,000 more in imminent danger...