Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given us an idea of what those innocent people of China and Spain are experiencing every day at the hands of Dictators. This should be a warning to America of what can, and will, happen as soon as certain foreign powers have developed their aircraft to such extent that they will be able to enter the stratosphere, come to this country, drop their destructive bombs of shrapnel and gas on an unsuspecting people and return to their country without ever being seen May Orson Welles have taught us a lesson in his portrayal of a sudden attack on America...
Author Goldwater shows that Paul Gauguin, who pursued the primitive to Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
Each day's hunt lasted five hours. Contestants were scored on hunting (trying to pick up a trail); trailing; speed and driving (racing against one another in the chase); endurance. Misbehaviors which meant disqualification: "babbling" (barking to the extent of interfering with the chase); "loafing"' (showing no inclination to hunt); "running cunning" (failing to work fairly on a trail). Hounds sometimes run over 35 miles in five hours...
...abhorrent to the international and supranational views of Catholicism, has lately been much on the Pope's mind. There are rumors that he will soon issue an encyclical denouncing racism as a heresy; that a Catholic organization will be launched to combat anti-Semitism throughout the world. The extent to which racism is an issue between the Church and Italy became evident in a sermon preached last fortnight by Italy's famed "Fascist" Cardinal, Archbishop Alfred Ildephonso Schuster of Milan. A lean, ascetic Benedictine, Cardinal Schuster has been spoken of as Mussolini's candidate for the next...
...Emporia Gazette is noted for editorial comment. Greenwich Time soon got a reputation for guessing what was going to happen next in foreign affairs. For Wythe Williams, before leaving Europe, had organized his own private foreign news service to an extent never before attempted by a paper in Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over...