Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parliament last week and waved a 641-page, blue-backed volume at the sea of faces before him. "This is the mighty theme of a nation building and remaking itself," he cried. "We had something worthwhile in our first Five-Year Plan and we made good to some extent. This second Five-Year Plan is the real beginning. We have to start from scratch...
...advising system, and in a sense, the problems of the Advising system are the problems of the freshman year. For basic to both is the unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable question: How much should Harvard attempt to ease the jolt of freshman year? Or, put another way, to what extent is a jolt the necessary prelude to a Harvard education...
...changes in the general configuration or size of the heart. The fluoroscopic examination of the heart showed a normal rate and rhythm. The healed infarction on the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle was again noted and appeared as an area approximately 2.5 centimeters (nearly one inch) in extent in which the amplitude of the pulsations was diminished. There was no evidence of bulging in the scar. Action of the diaphragm and aortic pulsations were normal...
Next day the delegates-by-the-sea heard A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany second the sentiment: "I like businesslike methods, but that is the extent to which I want the word 'business' applied to a trade union." The one-two attack foreshadowed a meeting next month in Washington, where Meany, Dubinsky and other members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council will gather to take a hard look at the Teamsters' conduct...
...suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them, and they try to put him out of their minds. The easiest way to do so is to insist that he keep his place. The Jew suffers from the same cause, but to a much less extent...