Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the more liberal elements of NSA maintain that the representatives actually do represent American students to the extent that delegates are enlightened, intelligent members of the student community. They point to the fact that NSA resolutions have followed the general trend of student thought in the dozen years since NSA was founded...
...student cannot absorb what he has learned in the academic curriculum, and make it a part of his life, then, to a certain extent, his education has failed. It is of no use to know intellectually what is right if he does the opposite. Attitudes, ideals, and conduct are as much the measure of an education as the quality of the mind. To believe that discrimination on a racial or religious basis is ethically wrong, and then to become a member of a student organization or club which practices such discrimination is not only hypocritical, but also, in tacitly subscribing...
MORE THAN HALF OF ALL FATAL INFECTIONS ARE ACQUIRED INSIDE A HOSPITAL. The extent of this danger and the complex, rigorous measures needed to minimize it preoccupied the American College of Surgeons' clinical congress last week in Atlantic City. See MEDICINE...
...over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract's Section 2-B, which deals with the work rules-varying from one mill to another-that govern such matters as the number of men needed for a particular task and the extent of management's authority to shift men around. Charging that the rules now foster "featherbedding and loafing," industry wants to add to Section 2-B a provision that "nothing in this contract shall prevent management from improving the operating efficiency of its plants...
Soviet students, Azrael finds, are generally content. "Tourists who meet Russian youths on the street tend to get an exaggerated impression of discontent among the university students." He was struck by the large extent of "satisfaction, defined in a great variety of ways, among the Soviet student body...