Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granted formal equality, but practically never social equality, typified in most areas by . . . social clubs. This exclusion appears to have distressed and humiliated the native elites out of all proportion to a rational assessment of the amenities foregone. [But British exclusiveness was] 'race prejudice' only to the extent that 'race' made the strangeness of" the stranger more evident...
...station's first technician stated that the "network realized that there were misadjustments in its tuning units. "What we want to find out now," he continued, "is to what extent our excess radiation output is caused by these misadjustments or by factors inherent in our system...
...network was ordered off the air by the Federal Communications Commission on January 15 for operating with a radiation output in excess of regulations. Mealy said that during regular operations. WHRB was unable to estimate the extent of this excess...
Reformers have admonished, "You are the ones who are really suffering from this," so many times that the aphorism has lost much of its virility. But perhaps it still be applied to a case which it fits so well: the extent of book stealing and mutilation in Lamont Library...
...telephones in kidnapping and security cases, under authorization of the Attorney General. Congress has not granted the request. Unless and until it does, wire-tapping cannot legally be used as an aid to law enforcement. We consider it imperative at this time for Congress to inquire searchingly into the extent to which the law has been violated and the courts of the United States hoodwinked by a Federal agency. And we think the law should be made so clear that even Attorneys General can understand it. Editorial in the Washington Post...