Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since your committee," Adams wrote the subcommittee's chairman, Arkansas' Oren Harris, "has chosen to make public the extent of entertaining of myself and my family on the part of an old friend . . . and has insinuated that because of this entertaining or this friendship Mr. Goldfine has received on my intercession favored treatment from federal agencies, I feel that I should set the record straight...
Before recommending the blast, the AECmen intend to study the rock under the coastline. Some kinds of rock absorb more neutrons than others and become more radioactive. The hardness of the rock is important too, because it controls to some extent the amount of nuclear energy that must be used to produce the desired effect...
...this appears like little more than a listing of support for George Bernard Shaw's famous dictum, "Nothing is ever done unless people will be killed if it is not done." Unfortunately this is to a large extent true. The current reevaluation of the American school system, such as it is, is attributable mainly to the fear of Russian military power...
...many high schools only one language is taught to any considerable extent, while at Andover, another one of America's large private schools, four years of training in Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and German are available and a new series of courses in Russian is being started...
Horace Mann, therefore, is spared the Eastern high schools' keen competition for grades in anticipation of the college entrance scramble. To the extent that scholastic competition exists, it is simply competition for honors within the high school itself--who will be valedictorian, who will be elected to National Honor Society...