Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbolic differences in the U.N. Charter could be bridged by words never destined to bear the stress of reality. But Poland was immediate and concrete, already the subject of angry public debate. How the fate of Poland was settled at Yalta is a story that contains, in a small-scale model, all the elements of the larger story of how the West lost the peace...
...months, the taxpayer has a choice of two alternatives: he can either pay a regular income tax on half his gain, or he can pay a flat 25% on his entire profit. In any case, the tax cannot exceed 25% of the gain. Under the graduated income tax scale, to benefit from the 25% maximum a single man must have an income of at least $18,000; a household head must earn $24,000; and a husband and wife filing a joint return must have a combined income of at least...
Because of some unknown property of large-scale space, the galaxies fly apart, as they can be seen to do. But since new galaxies are formed continuously in the ever-growing voids between them, the "population density" of space remains about the same. This process, says Gold, keeps the expanding universe in a steady state. It has no beginning, and will have...
...drama of co-existence is taking place in microcosm in the Middle East. Four hundred miles of fluid boundary separate Israel and the neighboring Arab states. Hardly a night passes without bullets flying across that border, and last week the two hostile camps come to the verge of full-scale war when Israelis and Egyptians fought a hit-and-run battle in the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. The immediate danger of a new Arab-Israeli war seems to have passed for the moment, primarily because the Arabs are not yet ready to fight and the Western powers are still pledged...
...course in playwrighting spotlights an important development at the University. Along with the Drama Club's recent decision to enter television and the unprecedented naming of two Spenser lecturers on Drama for this spring, the course represents something University people have been waiting for since 1923: A full-scale revival of interest in the Theatre at Harvard...