Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Advocate's quarters have been hard to keep in order, maintenance expenses have probably not figured to any great extent in the magazine's frequently hazardous financial situation. Since new buildings inevitably stimulate extravagant parties, however, it might be said that the Advocate's buildings have indirectly caused its downfall. Parties, at any rate, have been extravagant, and the most sumptuous ones have always been the Decennial dinners. The first one, held in 1876, and called afterwards the "great" dinner, was said to be "almost oppressive in its grandeur." Staged at the Parker House, it took three years...
...recent leadership has been "extremely effective." "The present Pope has wisely selected bishops a step above the previous type. Most important of all, Pope Pius XII has recognized the need of a fresh appeal to the workingman, while bringing the church to the middle classes to a much greater extent than formerly...
...flown to keep the crew in practice, thus eliminating "attrition" (crackups). Its launching site will be very cheap compared with the cost of a modern bomber base. Missiles can be dispersed widely, a few or one to each launching site. They can be hidden to a considerable extent, they are potentially mobile, they can be put underground. For the cost of a few B-52 bases, the U.S. can have several hundred sites, and the enemy would have to knock all of them out to be safe from retaliation...
...Spain. Last week in a pastoral letter published in Madrid's Catholic daily Ya, the bishop said: "There is in the conscience of Spain a great lack . . . We have created a type of Christianity poor in social virtues. The lack of justice and, to a great extent, of mercy, maintains a system of sharing the national wealth which gives to a minority the great bulk of our income and keeps the multitude in poverty...
...shots, only about 35% of the free vaccine allotted to private physicians has been reported used. Demand is well below expectations in Georgia, where 700,000 children have yet to get their first shots. Parents have failed to take advantage of available vaccine in North Carolina to such an extent that the state may have to launch a campaign to move its vaccine. (Vaccine tends to lose its effectiveness after being stored for six months...