Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truly amazed. I had no idea our nation was blessed with a theologian of such stature that he influenced the popularity rating of Milton Berle to the extent of a ten-point drop...
...applause was for Nancy and her winning ways-not necessarily for what she said. But even the other candidates and their spokesmen on the program seemed to go for this Kefauver. Said Bachelor Dick Russell: "Kefauver's chief accomplishment is that he outmarried himself to such an extent. His wife is his most dangerous secret weapon ... If I were running with Mrs. Kefauver, I'd be glad to accept second place." Ohio's Representative Clarence Brown, on hand to speak for Candidate Taft, beamed fondly across the political fence. Said he: "Now I'm almost convinced...
...language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated to a great extent by a progressive educational system and improved social conditions...
Students often suggest trips and projects they would like to do, and are generally permitted to do them. Last year, however, this lead to a rather strange research project: To study the Greek section of Yonkers to see to what extent it lives by Aristotle's proposed "rules of life." The program is not interested in training social workers, though, and emphasis is placed on training the students to understand social institutions...
...Idaho Falls, after some skirmishing between Taft and Eisenhower forces, the Idaho state convention did what it was expected to do: named a full slate of 14 delegates "honor-bound" to support Taft "to every reasonable extent." Keynoting the convention, Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee, a Taft man, offered a bit of basic political philosophy. Said he: "Don't get so wrapped up in your own candidate that if you see he is losing you can't get on the bandwagon of the winner...