Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back when H. G. Wells was writing science fiction stories, trips to the moon and solar system planets made pretty sensational reading. But science fiction has grown up to the extent that Wells' stories are about as exciting as the Ptolemaic system of the Universe. There are whole new planet systems, and a remarkable array of space gadgets, and an amazing repetition of plots...
...statement released last spring explained the official University position at that time: "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...
Soon after Britain's Prime Minister Churchill argued in the House of Commons for "substantial relaxation" of trade restrictions between Russia and the West (TIME, March 8), the British government sent a list of specific proposals to Washington. President Eisenhower, appalled by the extent of relaxation called for in the British list, took the extreme (for him) step of a personal cable to Churchill...
...hopes to vaccinate there would be (by recent U.S. averages) 700 cases of detectable polio this summer. Of these. 483 would, sooner or later, recover completely, 175 would have some permanent paralysis and 42 would die. The value of Dr. Salk's vaccine will be measured by the extent to which it cuts the number of paralytic cases...
This is a direct result of Congress' recent reduction of the tax imposed on collegiate athletic events. The extent of the tax cut is not yet definite, but it is certain to be at least ten percent...