Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in months, the U.S. could find an encouraging note in reports from embattled Europe. The extent of Europe's turn for the better could be measured only in inches. But last week Europe was perceptibly inching toward recovery...
...This committee has the additional duty of binding together a class which has never lived together or acted together to the extent that pre-war classes have," Weld continued. "'48 lacks the feeling of common tradition...
...this has curbed inflation to such an extent that the black-market value of the lira dropped from 640 in August to 570 last week, thus setting the stage for devaluation. Henceforth the value of the lira will be adjusted once a month according to the average free-market rate of the preceding month...
...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
...picture even though it was over dramatized and "corny" to a great extent, was still nonetheless an honest attempt to portray the American ideals of faith in the common man and love of country. Yet because it was this it was jeered from beginning...