Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...H.S.A. can also insure the development of a business to its fullest extent if its potential exceeds the work an independent student would be willing to give, Burke stated. He felt that the increase in student businesses which these factors provide will become more important as college tuitions rise and the need for student jobs increases...
...What do we do now?" Nehru had no answer, except to insist that "the basic structure" of the five-year plan would be carried out. Demanded the M.P.s: "How? How?" Last week, after ten days of rambling debate, Nehru at last admitted: "Nothing definite can be said . . . since the extent of our external resources still is not known...
...Constellations on highly traveled routes. Moreover, when Capital switched to Viscounts, it was unable to sell its aging fleet of DC-4s and early-model Constellations. Capital still flies the old planes, estimates that its inability to sell them cost about $1,000,000 last year, just about the extent of its deficit...
Perhaps most ironic is the extent to which this exhibition reveals the influence of French art to which German expressionism has lately been opposed, especially the poetically inclined canvases of Erich Heckel. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Fauve period Harbor Scene is a product of the movement dominated by Matisse and is a canvas far superior to Schmidt-Rottluff's two later, extremely ungainly, still-lifes. And Jawlensky's Head of a Woman pays tacit tribute both to Matisse and Rouault...
...hobbling about on crutches. In October he entered Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, where a metal plate was set into his spine. Twice in three months, his condition was so grave that his family was called to his bedside. Just before Christmas, he had recovered to the extent of flying, supine on a stretcher, to his father's Palm Beach home-where, to cure black moods of depression, he began writing Profiles in Courage. But in February his back began paining him fiercely again: the wound around his metal plate was not healing. He went back...