Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of women has been a consistent one of struggle against the inferior role which this and past forms of society have placed her in. The right to vote, the right to equal employment, the right to an equal education, all these, to what extent they have been won, have been won through the courageous struggles of women's organizations, and not, as some might wish to believe, by the generosity of the condescending male masters. This right takes its proper place with the fight for Negro rights and the fight for better working conditions which have all been...
Some summer theaters make their greatest profits not from ticket sales, but from apprentice fees. Stage-struck youngsters with ingratiating smiles and a paucity of acting ability will do almost anything to appear on a stage even to the extent of paying cash to a slightly shadowy producer. The producer claims to teach the smiling youth to act; usually the aspiring actor or actress will end up sweeping the stage before performances...
...ready acceptance of one of his standards for condemning people. The Senator outlined this standard on March 30, when, in talking about Owen Lattimore, he said: "the all important thing to be determined is not so much whether Lattimore was a Russian Agent. . . but to what extent our far eastern policy (as influenced by Lattimore) has paralleled the Communist Party objectives. . . the Lattimore line follows that line practically 100 percent...
...says Niebuhr, should beware of denying authority to such a consensus of church thinking. "Protestantism is inclined to vaunt itself because of its liberty, as distinguished from Rome's authoritarianism. We fear that Roman Catholicism deifies the church. [But] does not Protestantism deify the individual conscience to an extent which gives men a sense of security about the 'dictates' of their conscience and no sense of repentance about the mixture of interest and self-seeking in the ideals of conscience...
...always been that if such gents want to strip to their constitutional shorts and wade into the political sty on their own, nobody has any license to deny them the right, but when they insist on wearing their full academic regalia . . . they're strictly cheating, and, to that extent are phonies...