Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although brandy is customarily drunk in elaborately small amounts, distillers (with a realistic appraisal of the demand) store it in vats often 32 ft. high and 39 ft. in diameter. A certain amount of evaporation occurs in these reservoirs, but not to the extent of 2,000 gallons a month or so, thought the owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied...
Female Hormones. Cancer of the prostate in man, Dr. Huggins found, depends to a great extent for its growth on the presence of male hormones in the system...
...Rommel Papers comes a gripping chapter on Rommel's death, written by his son Manfred. After the German reverses in Normandy, Rommel was convinced the jig was up, advised Hitler repeatedly to end the war. Neither Liddell Hart nor Manfred Rommel makes it clear to what extent the general was involved in the plots against Hitler, but one day in October 1944, Rommel was at his home in Herrlingen recovering from the wounds suffered when his staff car was shot up. At about 12 o'clock, a dark green auto with a Berlin number stopped in front...
...Athletics, announced last night that Provost Paul H. Buck with the approval of the Harvard Corporation voted against the National Collegiate Association's football television policy for the 1953 season. 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...
...leadership was a form of escape; by this he meant that "Negro spokesmen" might gain a lot of prestige by making speeches and gathering personal followings, but did not really accomplish very much. Today's Negro leader concentrates on getting things done on specific issues. Emancipated to a large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education," he tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes...