Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to the Council, Reynolds said crowding in College dorms makes it difficult for many people to study during exams, that the House libraries are insufficient to provide for the large pre-exam rush, and that Lamont provides necessary course material be a much greater extent than the Houses...
...there is nothing very radical about this aspect of the bill. In the 1948 Selective Service Act there was a similar provision which allowed enlistment for one rather than the regular two year service compensated for by one year longer in the reserves. This was not utilized to any extent by the Defense Department...
...line, such as pre-invasion troop concentrations and other threatening actions. With this in mind, the President has suggested that action might be taken if the Communists attempt to seize the key islands of Quemoy and Matsu. But he has not made this policy explicit, and to a certain extent has opened United States planning to the very charges of vagueness which it is now trying to avoid. For this reason, another clear statement, defining the limits of our interests in the so-called "outlying areas," is necessary...
...camps are the blatnye, the criminals, who take the best bunks, get the best food. "They belonged," wrote Dr. Scholmer, "to a tightly knit organization with rigid laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into brigades, but it is more than any brigadier...
...postwar peak of 172, up 85% in a year, the biggest rise of any country. Helped by the prospect of rearmament and the lifting of extremely heavy taxes on sales of stock held less than a year (new time limit: three months), German stock prices reflected the extent of West Germany's boom. Biggest gainers: Casella Chemicals, up 160% to $112 a share; Erin Bergbau (mining), up 375% to $85; Beteiligungs A. G. Ruhrort (shipping...