Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harrison expects Princeton, Penn, and Columbia to fight it out for the title as they did last year, and he thinks Harvard will be about even with the rest of the teams. Last winter, however, the Crimson was hurt badly by injuries, so Harrison's outlook is, to some extent, one of caution...
...results of the poll demonstrate the extent to which the war has divided the American people. The country's leadership group, for the most part, is far more impatient about the war, far more cynical about the prospects of peace, than the general public. Antiwar sentiment is higher among blacks than whites, more pronounced among the young than the old, stronger in the East and West than the South and Midwest...
...more elusive question is whether or to what extent homosexuality and acceptance of it may be symptoms of social decline. For varying reasons, homosexual relations have been condoned and at times even encouraged among certain males in many primitive societies that anthropologists have studied. However, few scholars have been able to determine that homosexuality had any effect on the functioning of those cultures. At their fullest flowering, the Persian, Greek, Roman and Moslem civilizations permitted a measure of homosexuality; as they decayed, it became more prevalent. Sexual deviance of every variety was common during the Nazis' virulent and corrupt rule...
Burke's list of radical doubts about American social science has been expanded by my colleagues Samuel Bowles and Arthur MacEwan (The CRIMSON, October 27). Such criticism is typically posed in terms of suspicions as to the extent that traditional views and institutions may inhibit discussion and research directed toward social change...
General Director of the Association, William Schwartz, Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University Law School, said, "We have a very energetic and active department of public affairs connected with great public issues. For example, on the entire question of auto safety, to a great extent, we were responsible for improvements in auto production...