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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society without caste never was and never will be. Even his own Utopia, where education catapults the men with intellect or talent into positions of power, is possessed of a caste system--with caste resting upon intellect and talent. Even if the ruling class turns over to a certain extent, it is still a ruling class; and there is no real or universal freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAVE NEW WORLD | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...reservations for additional tickets for the Penn, and also for the Dartmouth games, have been so light that the center cheering group of single undergraduates has been necessarily enlarged to a considerable extent in the calculations of the ticket office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Taking Dates to Penn Game Will Occupy Seats Near Goal-Lines | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Instead of appointing only so many associate professors as can be later advanced, the Administration should permit each department to name as many associate professors as its teaching needs dictate--exercising supervision to the extent of imposing a total budgetary limit. This would ensure that every department had enough "middle men" to efficiently staff its courses. It would also mean, of course, that some of the associate professors could never be advanced, but this presents no formidable problem if it is realized that associate professors here have larger salaries and greater academic prestige than full professors in most other colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENURE ISSUES CLEARING | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

Pennsylvania uses the Harlow offense to a great extent, but its use is modified by the material on the squad. Chizmadia, Connell, and Rainwater are three lucking backs who generate power aplenty. They are all too big to become accomplished spinners so they just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, newsmen overseas, headline writers and readers in the U. S. began to understand each other about what was happening on the Western Front. The French were advancing by inches, not miles. Last week, official figures delineated the exact extent of Allied advance in the first four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Inches, Not Miles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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