Word: extent
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...gravest fault," according to O'Brian, "is a failure to appraise more accurately the extent of our danger and to test measures of security against the yardstick of traditional guarantees of freedom. The answer to the problem," he added, "is a drastic revision of our security program by men soundly educated in the history of freedom...
...proposed Consolidated Appropriations bill would help Congress maintain its ceiling on expenditures, by reducing the number of supplementary bills now necessary to make up deficiencies. With one bill covering the whole budget, Congressmen would be more fully aware of the extent of their expenditures. Responsibility for the public debt would be more sharply focussed on one all-important vote. Realizing this, Congressmen would hold pressure groups in much less regard. An omnibus appropriations bill, however, would hamstring the President completely, unless he were allowed an item veto...
More than one reader will undoubtedly question the extent to which he has applied his thesis to the early twentieth century class. His implications are perhaps too broad. Yet even for those who dissent, Lynn's insights into an age should make his work profitable reading for any student of American social history...
...name of a new view of man-materialist, dialectical man. "Our enemy is not any particular nation. It is not any particular army. It is not even any particular form of government. It is this Idea of Man." The U.S. finds itself frustrated in fighting this idea to the extent that the U.S. itself shares it. If often since the war the U.S. has stood more or less speechless before mankind, unable "to breathe life into what we ourselves believe," the failure is not merely one of propaganda, political warfare or communication-it lies in America's own philosophical...
Donald H. Menzel '42, professor of Astrophysics, remarked that the unified field theory is "an extremely esoteric theory that has not yet been developed to the extent that the theory of relativity was." He believed that it is far too early to tell what effect the unified field will have in physics or astronomy...