Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's recommendation came as the result of a poll taken by Wolff and Cohen last week. The poll tried to ascertain the actual extent of student class-cutting on Saturdays...
Stevens: My own feeling is that it was a greatly over-exaggerated situation. I concede that Senator McCarthy and his staff . . . speeded up to some extent the suspension of some people, but we had information about all of these people and the action would have been taken...
...Chairman Mundt directed his questions to the charges made against McCarthy's staff director, Francis Carr, who had also been accused by the Army of intervening on Schine's behalf. In reply to Mundt, Stevens said Carr had not sought preferential treatment for Schine to nearly the extent that Roy Cohn had. Stevens concluded: "I think Mr. Carr might have been a little more active in trying to stop some of the conversations that went on, and he did not do that...
...eleven states, half the youngsters in the three grades will get the vaccine while half will get an inert solution, tinted to the same cherry-soda hue. Only after the polio season is over will the code numbers be unlocked so that the records will show precisely to what extent children who received the vaccine escaped polio as compared with others of the same...
When the University, under Provost Buck, broke with the Association in May 1953, it stated "Harvard intends not to be bound by any program restricting its right to decide independently when and to what extent it will televise athletic sports." Shortly afterwards Yale also followed this action for similar reasons...