Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-odd members of the Debate Council would not readily admit to such guilt. Clearly, a judge's decision can, and often does, go to the side that makes the better use of the poorer argument. To this extent, most College debators will laugh at themselves and the system that enables them to make black seem white. They are frank enough, too, to admit that they spend many seemingly useless hours debating for the same reasons condemned...
...means restricted to Brattle Street. In the Boston area, and all over the country, such programs have multiplied to a point where almost every respectable college, high school, museum, or church provides some form of adult education. For the most part, the newer centers are to some extent publicly supported...
...sure, there are scientists who argue the effects will not be great, but no scientist so far has put forth the doubtful thesis that genes will be totally unaffected. The question is not whether H-bomb blasts will cause an increased number of mutations, but to what extent...
Until the scientists determine the extent--at which time the defense chiefs and the public can decide whether the bomb is worth the price--the U.S. should discontinue all H-bomb tests. Military defense should not be harmed, since the stockpile of A-bombs is already large enough to act as a powerful deterrent to any potential aggressor, and since the current military race seems to be aimed at the non-atomic intercontinental ballistic missile. If the result of continued nuclear tests will be a biologically deformed species, the defense is of doubtful value. Until scientists are certain that this...
...acted as counsel to the National Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement. Form 1943 to '47 Chafee, along with Jacques Maritain, Harold Lasswell, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Rheinhold Niebuhr, and Archibald MacLeish, served on the Freedom of the Press Committee, a private group sponsored by Henry Luce to investigating the extent of freedom of the press in the U.S. When the Committee started investigating Luce, the publisher stopped attending meetings and thereafter dropped by only for cocktails. The Committee's members explore their Personal philosophies together, finally produced six books, among them Ohafee's now classic law text, Government and Mass...