Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though still dwarfed by the productivity of the U.S., Canada's growing industrial muscle has expanded her world influence to an extent never before achieved by a country of 14 million inhabitants. The swelling flood of foodstuffs, metals, oil, newsprint and goods flowing from her fields, forests, mines and factories has given Canada a position of importance in the free world's councils subordinate only to the U.S. and Britain. Canada now supplies...
Eventually the business grew to unnatural proportions, and late in the '30's the several schools grossed a combined profit of close to one quarter of a million dollars. Almost three-fourths of the College used the bureaus to some extent, and while the average expenditure of the student was small, some men spent over $300 a year...
...continued significance of the intramural program of athletics should be stressed. Visitors unfamiliar with the extent of the program or the interests it arouses are often struck by the keen competition between the Houses for the various athletic trophies...
...around me were, too. The fault, with apologies to Shakespeare, was not in ourselves but in the stars. Neither of the principal performers lived up to the publicity they had received. Ann Andre, the Widow, was sufficiently voluptuous, but she mouthed most of her delicious lines to such an extent that I understood very little of what she said. This might be forgiven, if she had an exceptionally fine voice, but she doesn't. It is much too small, and she has trouble hitting her high notes...
...Prime Minister cited the figures of Britain's impressive postwar recovery, reminded his audience that Britain was contributing toward Western rearmament two-thirds as much as the rest of Europe put together. But, he went on, the speed of Britain's rearming depends on the extent of U.S. aid. "It is for you to judge to what extent the United States' interests are involved, and, whether you aid us much or little, we shall continue to do our utmost in the common cause . . . That is why I have come here to ask not for gold...