Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, it is fairly light for a Crusader team but being all-sophomore its consequent inexperience has been the source of many of Osmanski's troubles. Fumbles and penalties, among other errors of omission and commission, have hurt Holy Cross to the extent of five straight losses...
...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...some extent, Rank was forced into this disastrous policy by the British government's dollar-saving quota slapped on U.S. movies in 1947 (40% of the pictures shown in British theaters must be British made). He was also hit when Hollywood retaliated by refusing to show U.S. pictures on the same bill with British films. Since Rank owns 60% of Britain's theaters, he was under heavy government pressure to step up his picture-making activities...
...gotten into a worse mess than we are now in. We also supported the present Greek government, with the Truman Doctrine, not because we like corruption or fascism, but because it was a good way to keep the Russians out of the Mediterranean. We thereby vitiated to a great extent our high moral stand in international politics...
Behind God's Back. The idea of God as Creator, says Barth, is not, as generally thought, an easily accepted article of the Creed on which "Christians, Jews and Gentiles, believers and unbelievers ... to some extent stand together." God as Creator is a mystery as difficult of comprehension as the belief that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. "The existence of the creature alongside God is the great puzzle and miracle ... It is the genuine question about existence, which is essentially and fundamentally distinguished from the question which rests upon error...