Word: extent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is really important is who is dictating the ideas and values expressed over the air waves, and whether or not we approve of them. In Europe the uses of broadcasting are subordinated to the propagation of nationalistic or ideological ideas to the extent that radio is doing no constructive work but rather denying the free development of the mind...
Since the outbreak of war in Europe, the importance of Chungking and Tokyo in the U. S. Ambassadorial scale has increased tremendously-so much that only London and Paris now rank them. There are good reasons. Britain, France, Germany and, to a lesser extent, Russia have all turned Westward. Of important powers, only Japan and the U. S. are just now conspicuously active in the Orient. Masters of the East and West shores of the Pacific, they are natural opponents. One of them is big, rich, complacent, lazy, subject to delayed reflexes; the other small, inordinately ambitious, troubled with intellectual...
Greater of the two was bewhiskered Johann II, who wrote the Blue Danube and the operetta Fledermaus. One cause of his greatness was the jealous ambition of his mother, Frau Anna Strauss. Her husband Johann, one of the doggiest of Vienna's gay dogs, transgressed (to the extent of five illegitimate children) with an attractive milliner named Emilie Trampusch. Frau Strauss kept a stiff upper lip, concentrated on making her Johann II a better man than his father. So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church. His teachers, who expected...
...Holyoke Bookshop, which has a natural concern with its own financial problems, is surprised to find this interest shared by Councilor Sullivan and the CRIMSON to the extent of three news stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...
Fouled while shooting in the first quarter, Peabody fell and pulled a ligament in his left leg. The full extent of his injury, however, is not yet known...