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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, professional soldiers were boiling over at the extent to which the new National Defense program was being taken in hand by such Presidential intimates as Messrs. Hopkins, Aubrey Williams and Tommy Corcoran, leaving the high commands in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Whale on Trout Hook | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Shaw did indeed write all the dialogue for Pygmalion, which was taken verbatim from the stage play except for two new scenes showing Eliza's first bath and her first ball. In doing so, however, he showed his regard for American ideas to the extent of allowing most of Eliza's Cockney dialect in the opening scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Show, New Trick | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Idea for the investigation came from Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg. The Senate agreed to the extent of $30,000, put Democratic Senator Clyde L. Herring of Iowa in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: To Share or Not to Share? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...last two or three seasons the nine has been noticeably weak in fundamentals, to such an extent often that it meant the difference between a win and a loss. For this reason it is expected that Stahl will drill his team constantly, and with such an early start many of the difficulties encountered in the pitchers and catchers last year should be well ironed out by the time the first game rolls around in early April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Coach Stahl Calls Early Practice To Start Baseball Battery Candidates | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

...extent of destruction done by the hurricane has brought about the decision that the Amherst campus grading and terracing are to be started again and are to be fully completed this time, as they were not originally. A committee of the Alumni Council, headed by Richardson Pratt '15, is planning to raise the entire sum necessary for the completion of this project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News From Other College Campuses | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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