Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll, which asks 26 questions, is part of a long term investigation the Social Relations department has been making into the extent and motives of prejudice on the University scene. Heretofore the inquiry has been studying students' prejudices. Now it is interested in the interested in the reactions of minority group members who may have to face prejudices...
...addition to the live tackling in the passing scrimmage, contact work was provided by sending ballcarriers, including linemen, against stationary tacklers. Guard Lew Gordon was banged-up in this drill, but the full extent of his injuries is not yet known...
...struck Martin Luther was almost as crucial as the episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...
...paper. Because of the incomplete recordings, seismologists were unable at first to determine the quake's location, later reckoned that it must have hit hardest in southeastern Tibet and in northern Assam (a province of India). Communications with this wild mountain region, always poor, had stopped abruptly; the extent of the damage done by the quake could only be guessed at. By last week, frightening evidence of the quake's dreadful work in Assam had begun to reach the outer world...
...used by drug addicts to a great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...