Word: extent
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...effort to improve the education of students at Harvard College. There was no intent of any kind to try to construct a model curriculum for anyone else and there was no intent of any kind to ever seek publicity for what we were doing. So that to some extent the impression may have been created because the newspapers picked it up that Harvard was purporting to provide the answer for everyone else--that is an artifact of the media and that has nothing to do with what we were trying to accomplish, nor did the interest in the media arise...
...version enables the country's 212,000 whites to have a disproportionately large representation in Parliament and retain control over the police, the army, the judiciary and the civil service for at least ten years. Last month's elections, though far from perfect, were successful to the extent that they produced a black Prime Minister and an estimated 64% turnout of eligible voters. Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has denounced the elections as fraudulent because candidates loyal to the Patriotic Front leaders were excluded. In answer, critics of Young argue that it is most unlikely...
...Gentlemen bought X-ray photographs of objects concealed in boxes, and fashionable ladies had X-ray portraits taken of themselves as gifts for friends and lovers. But it was physicians who were most intoxicated with the new device's possibilities. Without manual probing, they could now evaluate the extent of bone fractures and precisely locate where foreign bodies were lodged in tissues...
Since both the extent and the effects of industrial concentration are uncertain, most speakers favored a go-slow policy to sort out the facts before trying to enact new antitrust legislation. Said Du Pont's Shapiro: "In view of our domestic economic needs and our international competitive problems, we would do well not to go off on major, and perhaps irreversible, social experiments until there are convincing reasons...
...difference between the protesting students and university policy makers is not one of words or of intent, but of action. The students have been true to their consciences in speaking out to the appropriate higher-ups. Can university policy makers claim to have used their voices to the fullest extent possible? David E. Keyes, G.S. 1, Division of Applied Sciences