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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinctions are to some extent academic. Each side can now substantially destroy the other even without striking the first blow, and marginal changes in either quantity or quality of weapons will not change that fact. Hence a rough balance exists. Both sides are also spending heavily. However, proportional to gross national product, the military burden weighs less on the U.S. than on Russia. Mutual escalation could only end in a new balance at a higher and more expensive level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KISSINGER: THE USES AND LIMITS OF POWER | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Many Jews have forgotten what it was like living in a ghetto. The American Negro is experiencing the persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and all: Jews are ordered by the Torah to aid the Negro and all that are oppressed. Men like Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld have made it known that the war is on. To the Negro and my fellow Jews: we shall overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...inconsistency of Williams' performances testifies to the tremendous advantage of the home court in squash. The temperatures vary considerably from court to court, and to a large extent dictate the style of play. In a hot court the ball bounces higher; thus drop shots are less effective and the points tend to be longer. With Harvard playing away matches at Navy, Penn, and Princeton, coach Jack Barnaby has been drilling the team on long points with emphasis on stamina rather than finesse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squashmen Will Encounter An Upset-Minded Williams Squad | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...what extent is ROTC under attack on other college campuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Pell's Case for ROTC | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...DIFFICULT to determine what extent credit for ROTC courses is an inducement to take ROTC programs, although the inducement does seem less than has been claimed. ROTC programs should not be made appealing at the sacrifice of essential principles of the liberal arts institution, especially when the basis of their appeal is unclear in the first place. Colonel Pell is concerned about a potential "disservice to the maintenance of the national defense establishment, as now constituted." We contend that any aspect of the status of ROTC at Harvard which is a disservice to the principles of the liberal art institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H-RPC Report--No Credit for ROTC | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

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