Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being hypnotized into a distaste for smoking, was swamped with letters from readers who wanted to be hypnotized too. Wrote an Evening Standard contributor: "Many have found that gargling with silver nitrate, swallowing bicarbonate, or well coating the palate with toffee or chewing gum are strong discouragements-to the extent that smoke can then be inhaled only at the risk of an explosion...
...wage raises, which had brought peace to heavy industry, would help keep up the purchasing power of many union members. To that extent, the boosts would lessen the effects of high prices and the dangers of a slump. But the benefiting unionists were only a small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high...
...addition, House football, which to a large extent has solved the lighter man's grid problem, stands in the way of a revival. Rivalries have become so deeply entrenched, Bingham pointed out, that Housemasters might object strongly to the reorganization of a sport that would drain off their best talent...
...Slyck 1G, the work which dominated the second half of the program. The Crimson's critic states frankly that he is not enough of a musician to analyze the competition after one hearing; but it should be observed that it was at all times interesting, not to any noticeable extent derivative, and in the best modern tradition of piano-orchestra color. Van Slyck rose to the enthusiastic applause of the audience at the end of his prize-winning work's performance...
...what extent today's political apathy on important issues will go can have no more definite demonstration than on the two presidential-term constitutional amendment. In this state the legislature is prepared to vote on it after a few short hours of discussion in committee with virtually no open opposition. If Massachusetts puts its approval on the amendment, it will become the fourteenth state to do so in a month after its submission to the states by Congress...