Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation here has improved . . . to the extent that we feel it our duty to put TIME readers' minds at ease by informing them we're all through crying, and if ever needed as a combat division we'll go and add a few more battle streamers to our already heavily burdened regimental and battalion standards...
...HAVE been amazed, and deeply concerned, since my return, to observe the extent to which the orientation of our national policy tends to depart from the traditional courage, vision and forthrightness which has animated and guided our great leaders of the past, to be now largely influenced, if not indeed an some instances dictated, from abroad and dominated by fear of what others may think or others may do. Never before have we geared national policy to timidity and fear...
...days, the war spread to Bloomingdale's, Saks-34th and, to a limited extent, to dozens of other New York City stores. Customers lined up before big charts, where changes in prices were scrawled, as breathlessly as stock brokers watching a ticker tape in a collapsing market. Such items as Haspel summer suits opened at $32.50, started sliding a few dollars at a time, closed at $19.24 at week's end. James Jones's bestselling From Here to Eternity fell from $4.50 to $1.94; Waterman fountain pens were cut from $3.95 to $2.09; copper pans from...
Meteor study is also useful to missilemen in another way. When meteors shoot through the air, they get white hot and most of them evaporate. This same thing happens to some extent with guided missiles. The German V-2 actually lost some of its metal by evaporation while descending through the atmosphere. By learning more about this effect, the meteormen hope to help the missile designers keep their "birds" from evaporating...
This year there major proposals have been offered--all designed to close the breach between faculty members and non-honors men. All were set up for operation within available resources (although opinion differed as to the extent of these): and all concern the five largest departments--History, Government, Economics, English, and Social Relations--where mass production education is most noticeable...