Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steadily increasing extent, the University administration has attempted to maintain close contact with the student body by permitting students to serve in responsible capacities on various policy committees...
...should change students' earning habits to any sizable extent, the Student Employment Office and the Financial Aid Center may have to further reconsider their programs. But the scope of the necessary changes will depend in large part on what happens in the next few years in the national economy...
...abolition of the Federal 20% amusement tax, which means that on a $3.60 ticket, this year the H.A.A. nets nearly 17% more per ticket. Now, not satisfied with a virtual 17% net increase, the H.A.A. has raised the same ticket to $4.00, thereby being charitable to themselves to the extent of $1.00 more per ticket, or a 25% increase...
Before determining disciplinary action, Moskoff attempted to discover not only past membership in subversive organizations but also the extent and duration of such membership and whether the severance was complete, final, and in good faith...
...which he refers is the kind held by every homegrown demagogue who can "spot a Red when he sees one" and is quick to pin the label on even some of the ones he can't see. But the more responsible agencies of government long ago recognized the extent to which they must rely on the academic world for a knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's enemies. Symbols of this policy, begun long before World War II, are institutions such as Harvard's Russian Research Center, which is supplying the ideas for the psychological counter-offensive...