Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be expanded]. . . . The Bible is second to none among the books that have influenced the thought and ideals of the Western world. [It deserves study] conducted with at least as much respect as is given to the great secular classics, and devoid of arbitrary interpretations to the same extent...
Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
That first job, incidentally, usually depends to a large extent on college grades in chemistry and whatever mathematics and physics has been squeezed in, but most estimates place the starting salary for a graduate with a good record at about...
...curriculum is divided generally into five parts: Economic Theory, Economic History, Money and Finance, Market Organization and Control, and Labor Economics and Social Reform. The latter three are categorized as Applied Economics, and their designations are largely self-explanatory. Concentrators must specialize in one of the five to the extent of taking at least three half-courses and a special examination in that field, but their choice of study is not otherwise limited of prescribed except that they must take one course in Government and one in History. A divisional examination complements the special by testing the student's mastery...
Briefly slated, the chief area of disagreement in to what extent the many semi-socialistic, debtor nations, particularly the United Kingdom, are willing to relax their closely gripped trade reins and exchange concessions with the great creditor nation, the United States, devoted to a lively, but often capricious free-enterprise system. The first group of nations places a high level of employment and security from depression well before expansion or profits. As one London paper stated on the eve of the meetings, "These countries think that the first task is not to increase world trade but to make its flow...