Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English major, who is "trained in analytic criticism to a greater extent than his English opposite number; but he often lacks background information, and is liable to be much weaker in his awareness of the cultural context of a literary work . . . Further, the American student is often allowed to collect his 'hours' of English courses in a quite arbitrary fashion, and may get his degree on the basis of a course in Donne, a course in Elizabethan stagecraft, a course in Yeats and Eliot, a course in Joyce, a course in the modern American novel, and some courses...
...Bantu Education Act will no doubt achieve its purpose as a tool of South African segregation, but only at the expense of education. Ignorance will only further the separation of the native community, leaving it easy prey to the same kind of nationalism erupting in Kenya. To this extent, the Act is largely self-defeating. But in a larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance...
...regret that I do not have the time to discuss in detail all of the miscellaneous attacks that are made on social security. However, I may say that my general reaction is that the basic points made in your editorial are sound and that to the extent that Mr. Campbell has attempted to meet them he has failed...
...ages of 50 and 69 will be recorded in detail . . . The health histories of each of them will be followed for at least five years. At the end of that time, or possibly before, we should be able to correlate the relationship between their smoking histories and the extent of lung cancer among the smokers and non-smokers...
...prohibit the Jewish men who have done well. Our candidates are usually selected with little regard to their activities here. We chose from a certain type and background and there just aren't very many Jewish students in that group to begin with." Echoes another club member, "To some extent we let the headmasters at certain prep schools do the screening...