Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wall. In the next two sets Richards did what he had to do - he scored his aces twice. He won those sets, and the crowd, understanding that they were watching such tennis as no one had played anywhere for a long time, forgot their manners to the extent of cheering in the middle of rallies...
...University. Three years have been sufficient to show that Harvard as a whole did not really care about the Hound and Horn and at the same time that Harvard could not produce the material that the magazine wanted. The fact that their circulation has been to a large extent outside of Harvard and that practically no unsolicited contributions from students have been sufficiently good to merit publication, combine to prove the truth of this contention beyond a doubt...
...experiment in the Harvard Dental School curriculum, in the form of application of the tutorial system to that professional course, met with initial success in its brief trial last year. Though the tutorial system has long been used in Harvard College and has been taken up to some extent by other colleges, this is the first time that system has been applied to a professional school of dentistry...
...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...
Irrigation-conscious observers recalled that Russia is already third among nations in the extent of her artificially watered areas...