Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There can be only one verdict as to the overall effects of the education of German your during the last hundred years. To the extent that we see in the down fall of that country a failure in education, we become aware of the responsibility of our schools, colleges, and agencies of adult education...
...error: "a grey prison-made suit with $10 of the State's money" after twelve years' imprisonment on false testimony obtained under duress. While nothing could make full retribution to the individual in a case such as this, surely a State should feel financial liability to the extent of assistance until suitable permanent employment could be found-if greater financial compensation is impossible under existing laws. Thanks to TIME [Aug. 27] and the Chicago Daily Times for publishing the story of Joe Majczek and his mother...
...thobber is a person who prefers guesswork to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by asserting them frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...
...Navy, heedful at last of the loud squawks which followed the recent announcement of its system for discharge (½) point for each year of age and month of active service, 10 points for dependency), liberalized its policy to the extent of allowing ¼ point for each month overseas. Critical scores remained: 44 for enlisted men and aviators, 49 for officers. The new ruling, the Navy estimated, would make an additional 423,000-a total of 750,000 -immediately eligible for release...
Telephones were always scarce in Tokyo (about 250,000 before the war). The value of a set was determined, to some extent, by the exchange number. Numbers in ascending order might cost several hundred dollars, because they were lucky. Numbers containing the figure four had been a drug on the market: the pronunciation of the word for four (shi) was identical with the word for death...