Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported fight, great strides were made in improving procedures in the U.S. federal courts. Judge Vanderbilt says that the 1938 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are "models of simplicity and flexibility." So far, seven states have almost entirely adopted the federal rules, while twelve have followed to a lesser extent...
...college by 1970 as at present (about 30%), enrollments will jump 75% to 4,219,047. Should the college percentage increase to 40%, enrollments might soar to well over 5,000,000. Thus, says Registrar Ronald Thompson of Ohio State University, "it is no longer appropriate to debate the extent of the need. The children have been born . . . We in higher education have just a few years in which to put our house in order...
...attempt to examine conscientiously the intricate perversions of self-deception, a writer of drama risks creating a vehicle so heavy that despite its real values of depth it is incapable of delivering its potential impact. To a certain extent, this is the error into which Lyon Phelps has fallen in his play The Gospel Witch. Even with cuts the production is too long, and in spite of the general excellence of the cast and the immediacy of a theatre-in-the-round presentation, the audience becomes almost numb during the last third of the play under an accumulated burden...
When Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's new prime minister, addressed the Supreme Soviet this week, his words echoed those of Lenin, Stalin, and to a lesser extent, Malenkov. "Heavy industry," Bulganin said, "has always been and remains the foundation for the further upsurge of our national economy... Our highly developed heavy industry is the great, historical achievement of the Communist Party and of the Soviet people." Although the Soviet Union would like the world to think its industrial economy is without weakness, economic specialists at the Russian Research Center know differently. These men, who daily inspect the latest Soviet...
...their consideration of the war-making power, the framers of the Constitution were reacting to some extent against current British theory and practice. According to historical tradition, he war-power was one of the main royal prerogatives--the king himself had the authority to take the nation into war. Thus the final draft of the Constitution contained the provision that the United States Congress alone could declare war, Hamilton, in the Federalist, made a great point of minimizing the President's powers as Commander-in-Chief and stressed the fact that Congress was empowered to raise and regulate military forces...