Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article also discusses several of the outstanding courses developed at the school. One of these, "Administrative Practices," emphasizes the human approach and all over picture to so great an extent that "Ad Prac" has become B-School slang. According to Business Week. "I really ad-praced her" means roughly. "I took her emotions into account...
Most of us in Harvard College have the undoubted privilege and dubious pleasure of using the Lamont Library to some extent during every examination period. And most of us, driven to the library at an intemperate hour, after a hurried breakfast, in order to return a nine o'clock book, have occasion to visit the gentlemen's restrooms. It is with increasing irritation that we find the walls and doors of the stalls in said restrooms covered with the vilest obscenities. Such drawing and invitations have no place in Harvard College, at least publicly. To illbreeding, feeble wit, or inordinate...
...Pont's failing to export nylon to the British market, thus giving I.C.I.'s British licensee, Courtauld's, a monopoly. By so doing, the court found, Du Pont failed to sell as much goods abroad as it might have done, and to that extent damaged the nation's export trade. In effect, it was not punishing Du Pont for getting too big a share of the world market, but for not getting enough. Licensing others to make nylon, it added, would undoubtedly start them exporting it, and force Du Pont to do so as well...
Rain poured down all Tuesday night, and though the precipitation stopped abruptly early yesterday morning, the skies remained threatening all day. In addition, the heavy downfall had soaked the tennis courts and the baseball diamond to such an extent that Athletic Association officials were forced to call off the varsity baseball game with Tufts. The freshman tennis match with Deerfield, at Deerfield, was also washed...
...CRIMSON'S coverage of the disturbance, its extent is certainly justified by the fact approximately half of the undergraduate body was directly involved in the disturbance...