Word: extents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March, latest month for which trade figures are available, U. S. merchandise exports exceeded imports by $102,306,000. In March 1937 the reverse was true to the extent of $59,909,000. Changes wrought by drought, war and depression showed most clearly in specific cases...
Many people feel that in the last few years the supremacy which Harvard has long enjoyed in the legal field has been for the first time seriously challenged. For Harvard this challenge has meant a reexamination of the methods of teaching initiated many years ago and to a gratifying extent the system has been found as sound today as when first inaugurated...
Censors permitted to pass the estimate of Izvestia, official Government organ, that the now collectivized peasants have resisted this year to the extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing...
Should "Birth of a Baby" be censored? She'd rather not say. "I don't care to look at them. After a mind has developed to a certain extent, it should know about these things...
...Randall emphasized the extent to which law and order break down under strike conditions and said that there should be no need for armed forces in plants. "Mobs don't defy order; they destroy it. The responsibility rests on an alert public which can insist upon an orderly government," he said...