Word: extention
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Acting while the Student Council committee investigating House parietal rules was still grinding into second gear, the seven University House masters were found late yesterday to have already taken steps for standardizing rules for women guests to an extent considered "as far as practicable...
...secular learning into the three fields of accumulative knowledge, philosophy, and literature and the fine arts, President Conant went on to distinguish between "invention" and "scientific discovery" as separate phases of the area of "accumulative knowledge. Science," he emphasized, "emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations...
...basic philosophy of Liberalism id founded on humanitarian and to a lesser extent on economic principles. Its aim is to secure for all Americans, and eventually for all peoples, the highest possible standard of living-which is well above the one which new prevails. Furthermore, Liberalism unlike pragmatic Communism so opposed the scarifying any of our political or civil rights in order to obtain economic benefits. The fight for personal liberty was largely won in the nineteenth century; and while Liberalism is committed to the preservation of classic freedoms-freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of worship...
...improved level of existence for our nation by their belief that such a goal con be attained only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
...spiritual calamity in England is not to be compared, in the extent of its ravages, with what has befallen the rest of Europe. Europe today is peopled by millions who have been brutalized by a war waged with the ferocity of the jungle, other millions torn up by the roots and thrown out on the roads to live by their wits...