Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could have flown out there and gotten back by now and given Congress his recommendations. We are being asked to buy a pig in the poke." Dulles flushed. Pounding on the table with clenched fist, he snapped: "If Congress is not willing to trust the President to the extent he asks, we can't win this battle. If we have to pinpoint for every country, including the Communists, every step we are to take, this resolution will not serve its purpose. The emergency is great and the military situation is one of great danger...
...these students do appear is a testimony to themselves, but not to Harvard's curricula. The lure of grades, however, is not so much a mania for the marks themselves--at least, we hope not--but rather a desire for what grades ideally should provide: an evaluation of the extent to which a student has mastered, or failed to master, an area of knowledge. If the grade system, which is now under attack from several quarters, at times does not provide this kind of answer--and who has not sometimes received higher marks in courses for which he was less...
...causes of Cambridge delinquency are the familiar ones. To a certain extent they are environmental. One can work out a pretty close correlation between the degree of dilapidation of an area and the degree of its delinquency. The fairly substantial middle class sections adjoining and to the west of Harvard Yard are relatively free of juvenile problems. But it is in the poorer sections of the city, to the east of Harvard, that the real difficulty lies...
Kicking people is one way the Cambridge delinquent gains prestige in the eyes of his contemporaries, for the "tough guy" is feared and respected. Consequently toughness is to a great extent put on and exaggerated. The local youths play a never-ending game of bluff and test and bluff again...
...plenty for all? At times in history, American business has met its responsibilities; at other times, it has not. The question now is, will it rise to the occasion to think anew in the next few decades? And the answer to that question is going to depend on the extent to which America's business executives know not only where business now is; but perhaps more important, where it has come from, and where it is going. These answers will come only from men who have a long-range purpose clearly in mind; men who, in short, can get above...