Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listed in the White House Conference report [Dec. 19]? Naturally, Chemist Joel Henry Hildebrand insists that mathematics and science are the most important. Yet nothing is either practicable or important if never used. Those who bemoan declining registrations in high-school math and science courses should first survey the extent to which these subjects are subsequently used...
...maybe a man isn't described fully as healthy, and then there's another calculation to make . . . My mind at this moment is not fixed. If it were, I would say so right here this second. But my mind is not fixed to such and such an extent that it can't be changed...
...Tammany Tigers to the Pendergasts and Kellys and Crumps, the lore of the bosses had them as displaying their real inner benevolence by handing out Christmas food baskets and helping poor widows. These things they did, but in quest of power, not out of kindness. To a lavish extent, Frank Hague went through the same motions. As his monument to motherhood, for example, he left behind him the $1.8 million Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital. But Hague was hated and feared, and the secret of his power was that he was feared more than he was hated. Simply by presenting...
...intelligent representation of student needs. It is on this basis that the Council must be judged. In the past year, Council surveys have studies problems faced by freshmen, the life of the foreign student here, the parking problem, the adequacy of the Harvard education for science concentrators, and the extent of interest in religion among undergraduates...
...preview of his radio talk tonight at 6:45, Charles S. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, described the extent of the current storm. It stretches from northern Maine and Labrador south to Cape Hatteras and North Carolina, and west as far as Chicago...