Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work on it for nearly five years...
...Remington Rand Inc. Chairman Benjamin La Fon Winchell of Remington Typewriter explained the pending merger of his company with Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine: "Throughout the world these concerns are duplicating their selling efforts [through 4,500 field representatives] to an extent which insures good rewards for intelligent efforts made under a coordinated management." Their combined net earnings last year were...
...Valuable studies have been made but, unfortunately, are not followed or, in general, practiced in motion picture theatres. One such report states: "By proper distribution of the light, the general illumination of the interior of a motion picture theatre may be raised to a considerable extent above the values in common use without causing any appreciable loss of quality in the projected picture...
...book: Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, July 26). But last week, when Viscount Gladstone took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father.? It was a revolting charge, which of course made me angry almost to an ungovernable extent. It was a charge which made my father out to be a foul sensualist and a foul hypocrite, and the charge was therefore a foul one! It was a deadly insult to every member of my family. A charge so foul and loathsome could only have been made by a foul...
...full extent of the Macfadden press is popularly appreciated but needs the official Macfadden figures to set it off in its true magnificence: Readers...