Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following season, Haughton had to revamp the offense completely, as the last remnants of the brute force plays were abolished, with rules prohibiting pushing and pulling of the runner. The wedge had disappeared long since; it had to. Public outcry over football deaths and injuries had reached such an extent that in 1906 President Roosevelt influenced the College to stop the game once again. Haughton's arrival signaled resumption...
When it's hot, the University metamorphoses. Elsie's closes earlier,--Wigglesworth is off limits, the frontiers of learning do not retreat quite as quickly. To a large extent, Cambridge becomes a father Elliott's Girls' Town; and the news it makes is largely a matter of statistics, the data of a sociological experiment...
Contradicting Communist myth, Moorehead recapitulates such things as the relative obscurity of Lenin in Marxist councils before the revolution, the fact that German subsidies were of great importance to the Bolsheviks, and the massive extent of the funds offered by the policy of "expropriations," meaning armed robbery; Stalin himself carried out successful heists. Moorehead evokes the strange quality of Russian life with its tone of "brittle lethargy," the Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance...
Paar claims that he is just being himself on the show, and to a very large extent he is. Unlike an actor, he cannot take refuge behind a script or a false beard; he must convince the audience that he is exposing his true face. The result is that the traits of the "real" Paar are very like those of the TV Paar-the difference being that off screen they loom much bigger. Says he: "It is not true that my personality is split. It is filleted. On the air all I do is hold back. If I gave...
...necessary for Paar to live at the top of his emotions, because to such a large extent in his work, feeling takes the place of a specific talent. He is no actor, singer or dancer. He is a gifted comedian, but not in the Lindy stand-up-and-knock-'em-dead sense. His comedy is low pressure and has to be, if it is to be tolerated on a nightly 1¾-hr. show. "Nine hours a week," says one awed performer of Paar's stint. "My God, that isn't overexposure, it's practically nudism...