Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's 1,000,000 teachers it might have been more significant had it been written in plain English instead of clinical jargon. Sample: "Music and rhythm, apparently are facilitating factors for several types of learning. Diserens found that music delays fatigue, speeds up voluntary activities, increases the extent of many muscular reflexes, reduces and changes suggestibility and alters the electrical conductivity of tissues." In other words (Playwright Noel Coward's) : "Extraordinary how potent cheap music...
...legislation is socially desirable but this is not the hour for it. If it must pass, the bill should at least be modified from its uncompromising flat rate. A system of wage differentials for regions and industries, established by wage boards which have made individual investigations, might to some extent mitigate a situation of increased production curtailment and unemployment...
...drivers who had been in wrecks causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...
...Colans' rabbi, Talmudist A. E. Abramovitz, gave no better help: "The Mosaic law does not deal with such problems. At the time the Bible was written surgery was not advanced to the extent that it is today, and such problems did not occur. ... It is my opinion that we should let nature take its course. Where men cannot correct, let God make His own decision...
...extended since, is a sure bet in the 880. And, incidentally, he may well crack the meet record of 1:58.2, set by Bill Bingham in 1913. He will double in the 440, where the Crimson has been weakened by the loss of Dan Hamilton, weakened to such an extent that Exeter swept the event Saturday...