Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciation exists here," Schlesinger observed, "for the extent of exasperation toward the USSR in Europe on the part of everyone except the Communists...
...Moffie and Mel Freedman, running with the white-shirted third-stringest, impersonated Columbia's great back-field pair--Kusserow and Rossides--in the defensive scrimmage. For an hour they ran wing T plays against two Varsity elevens, carrying the illusion even to the extent of wearing the same numbers as the Columbia regulars...
...Widow Agg's. The crowds cheered him. Newsmen were nonplussed. They had spent most of their time on the train speculating on the extent of Mr. Truman's defeat in November. All across Republican Iowa large crowds turned out to see him. The crowds were friendly, a good deal of the cheering was enthusiastic...
...Cardinal Mazarin showed "to what extent possessions can take possession of the possessor." Before he died, Mazarin shuffled sadly through his collection, wearing a nightcap and camel's-hair wrapper, and left the room saying, "Goodbye, dear pictures that I have loved so well and which have cost me so very much...
...without a certain degree of falsification, because the surface of the earth is a spherical surface whose pattern cannot be reproduced accurately upon a plane . . . An atlas meets the problem by giving us two different maps of the world which can be compared . . . They contradict each other to some extent at every point. . . So it is with the paradoxes of faith . . . not because the divine reality is self-contradictory, but because when we 'objectify' it all our judgments are in some measure falsified . . . The higher truth which reconciles them cannot be fully expressed in words, though...