Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film test to be conducted here by First National Pictures Corporation and the publishers of College Humor all Harvard men interested in moving picture acting as a career will have an opportunity to learn the extent of their capabilities in that respect. It is probable that the test will be conducted sometime next month and the exact date will not be announced until later...
...student council at Williams very obviously attempts to cope with these difficulties. It solves the question of representation to some extent by granting a representative to each fraternity, and by making class officers ex officio members. But this makes for a body too large and unwieldy to be effective,--witness the dismal inertia of the portentous Harvard Student Council before the reform...
...open minds of audiences in every country, will lessen hatred between countries, thus bringing nearer the arrival of world peace said Mr Hays. The militons who daily throng to see American films, 90 percent of which are made by the companies under my supervision, are influenced to an extent never possible by books or the press...
...what extent may states regulate business ? Last week, the U. S. Supreme Court, in a five to four decision, ruled that states can regulate only businesses involving public utilities or morals, that theatre ticket scalping* does not come under either of these classifications, that the New York law limiting scalpers' charges to 50c in advance of the rate printed on the face of the ticket is unconstitutional. This decision reversed a lower court opinion and ended the case of Tyson & Brother, United Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc. v. New York State officials...
...Binnacle unburdened himself of a secret. Taking 100 girls to sea with 400 boys had not been eminently successful, for three reasons which the Associated Press adroitly paraphrased for Editor Allen: "1) The presence of companionable young women distracted the young men from their studies to a disturbing extent. 2) Contiguity of youth of both sexes started many courtships of varying degrees of intensity. 3) Residents in foreign ports at which the ship touched, not having reached the American ideas of the emancipation of women, misinterpreted the meaning of the venture, with resultant complications...