Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background with other sports is concerned, Bolles said, "I played a little football in high school where I was a very poor second string guard." Pressed about the extent to which he was familiar with other departments for which he would be responsible, he answered, "I'm a pretty competent horseshoe player...
Such frantic attempts to make political capital out of serious problems of foreign policy only indicate the extent of the bankruptcy in Republican leadership. In seeking to embarrass the Administration, the G.O.P. points up its own inadequacy...
Protests against dentures and spectacles charges were as mere grains of grit compared to the big rocks the Tribune hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell-the issues of price rises, the extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
...were established, the Graduate School of Design would provide a continual source of new ideas and encouragement. Moreover the committee could work closely with the Cambridge Planning Board to improve several alum areas near Harvard and could push projects like moving the subway yards to North Cambridge. Certainly the extent of Harvard's property and of its construction program makes such a committee essential...
...will be redundant. Now in actual fact there are clergymen in Cambridge. They are completely unofficial, as far as Harvard is concerned, and to a large extent unknown to University officials. A chaplain will be well known at the Dean's office and the Hygiene Department. There are over 2,000 students at the University at the present time who have not denominational affiliation. In addition, there are many denominational students temporarily dissociated from their denominations. Many of these men have religious problems from time to time, which they bring to the Dean's office or the Hygiene Department...