Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers, radios and orators are constantly exhorting the people: "Cultivate the style of bitter struggle." To the peasants they have directed warnings that baldly confess the dangers of starvation and their plans for dealing with it. "If the peasants do not carry out large-scale production," said People's Daily last November, "they will be unable to meet the needs of the nation . . . and will also cause difficulties for national industrial construction ... If the peasants do not unite to carry out large-scale production . . . there will surely be many poverty-stricken peasants." In short, if there is not enough...
...have about 20 steel sewing needles scattered through his body. All were rusty and bedded in scar tissue. The upholsterer had held them in his mouth at work and accidentally swallowed them. ¶ Prepaid health-insurance plans might be healthier if they were revised to include a sliding scale of premiums based on subscribers' incomes, suggested the American Hospital Association's Kenneth Williamson. His argument: doctors' fees also vary with ability...
Schine spent that off year in the Army Transport Service. On his reapplication to Adams House he said he was a "lieutenant in the Army," but this was not so. He had the "simulated rank of lieutenant" which apparently meant that he had the same pay scale as a lieutenant, but he was only a civilian. His actual job, according to Colley, was that of an assistant purser on an Army transport...
Bruce Munro, Admittedly worried about the game, has held practice in the mud for the past two days, but has not been able to get in full-scale scrimmages because of drill conflicts and bad playing conditions...
Last week in New Zealand, an M-K crew broke through the last rock barrier 14 months ahead of schedule to finish a great, 5½-mile railroad tunnel in the rugged Rimutaka Mountains. By M-K standards, it was a small-scale operation, costing only about $7,000,000. But on the record, it was one of the world's longest railroad tunnels and one of the greatest construction feats in New Zealand history...