Word: scale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present plan would also be on a small scale, Rogers has said. Screening tests would choose students for the program, and a strict eye would be kept on the standards of the work being done...
...returned to Harvard in the fall of '46 and took his first non-journalistic job as assistant to Counsellor for Veterans Wilbur J. Bender, who at that time was trying to organize the College's small-scale army of ex-G.I.'s. In June, 1947, he became Counsellor himself, when Bender was made Dean, and has held the job ever since...
...tricky scale of Moscow's favor, Maurice Thorez has had his ups & downs. When French Communists are ordered to smile on their own countrymen, Thorez is up; when they are ordered to show their fangs, he is down. He was down last week, but since, as secretary general, he was still the titular head of the French party, he was instructed to read a statement embodying the latest shift in the party line-a statement he had had no hand in preparing...
...associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...program is being put into effect on a nationwide scale...