Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doolittle and Gavin, TIME has accepted at face value the statements of two officers renowned for extreme partisanship on behalf of their own services. There are military men of sound and sober judgment in Washington today who are willing to place national interest ahead of interservice politics. To the extent that the Indians in the Pentagon will let them, they are slowly succeeding. The men I refer to are the chairman and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Japan. In this atmosphere, talks between Japan and Korea have inevitably been difficult. Four years ago in Tokyo the Korean delegation walked out in a huff when a Japanese spokesman ventured that Japan's occupation of Korea was not entirely bad, that Korea had benefited to the extent of railroads, power systems and public buildings...
...some extent I agree with the CRIMSON here. I have argued on numerous occasions that graduate instruction is the most costly instruction, and I have also contended that all time spent on research should not be allocated to undergraduate costs. But this is far from agreeing with the CRIMSON...
There was little hope that Congrave would ever regain the use of the right side of his body. How severe and lasting the impairment of his vision would be could not yet be told, or the extent to which other fibers to the frontal and temporal areas of the cortex would take over the functions of those destroyed. The acid test of Congrave's recovery would be months hence, when a member of the chemical engineering faculty brings down his textbooks to see how much he has retained, how much more he can learn...
Each day, they reported later, the toughest hours to get through were in the dark of the morning toward 6 o'clock. About 9 a.m., when they would be most wide awake on a normal routine, they snapped out of their stupor to some extent. Most of the students went through spells of laughing for no reason. One was "happy and silly" for 45 hours, then became so depressed that the slightest irritation provoked violent argument. They forgot each other's names or substituted one name for another...