Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mostly a matter of size and to some extent probably a matter of local culture, but a Columbia student tried a certain stunt once as an experiment, first in his own New York, and then again in Cambridge, where he was visiting on the occasion of a football weekend. He attracted considerably more attention in the Boston area, where newspaper readers, for instance, still seem to get a big kick out of a funny college tale. In New York, a prank must be of unusual brilliance to achieve recognition...
Dartmouth still has the gifted Johnny Calyton to throw passes and, as usual, a number of fleet backs to run the ball. This means that the Indians will score--and score fairly often--this season; their opponents' strength will lie, to a great extent, in Dartmouth's weaknesses, which on Saturday were mainly the defensive left and the pass defense...
There was enormous wastage: because Congress had provided no sound accounting system to check on payments, the U.S. overpaid to the extent of an estimated half a billion on terminated war contracts. There was fraud and there were mistakes; Comptroller General Lindsay Warren found glaring errors in one out of every seven of the settlements he examined -"and never an error in favor of the Government." At the time, everyone thought that haste, even though it meant waste, was better than delay which might have cost the nation a bigger sum in lost civilian production, long lines of unemployed...
...Blow. By all I could learn in Taipei this week, the Nationalist government continues to improve in performance, to an extent and in ways which no one would have thought possible a year or so ago. By the same testimony, the Nationalist armed forces of some 700,000 men preserves a remarkably high state of morale, considering the debilitating effects of our new policy of "neutralization." Nationalist leaders see in Secretary Acheson's latest move a blow which, if it is allowed to fall, will destroy the Nationalists and eliminate their armed forces as a factor against Communism...
What Is Normal? The best argument for an excess profits tax is the vague one that it helps morale in wartime. By imposing a heavy burden on business, the Government supposedly makes such burdens on the general public as rationing and price & wage controls easier to bear. To some extent, the tax also tends to cut down non-military production since there is no incentive to boost it as long as any additional profit is to be siphoned off. But the few arguments for the tax are far outweighed by those against...