Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Hartz '40, associate professor of Government at Harvard, and Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., both backed Stassen's proposal. They agreed that an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would carry with it more House and Senate seats than one where Nixon was the running mate, and to this extent would improve the overall Republican outlook...
...large extent, Beberman and Page have cast aside the traditional tags (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.) that tend to make math seem a series of separate and unattached compartments. "Frequently," says Beberman, "our students do not know whether they are doing geometry or algebra at any given point.'' But the basic intent is to reveal math as a "creative process in which we want our students to participate." Instead of telling students how to solve equations, "we just explain to them what the root of an equation is and then give them 30 pages of problems and tell them...
...explanation-and the obvious one-for Stalin's rise to arbitrary power is the absence of checks and balances in the Communist system. Unable to concede this, Moscow's Central Committee offered an explanation which explained nothing: "The development of the personality cult was to an enormous extent contributed to by some individual traits of J. V. Stalin...
Staunch Friend. The Times's high regard for Western journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...
...from decade to decade. Periodically, the needs were so nearly filled that the market and industrial activity declined. In the age of research, industries compete constantly to create new needs, expand their markets and increase production. Says General Electric's Research Director C. Guy Suits: "To an increasing extent, we will determine what discoveries need to be made−and then make them...