Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project for the Upper Colorado River Basin, his Administration's first large-scale power-irrigation system. ¶ Gave his permission for installation of a CinemaScope system in the White House screening room. The $10,000 curved screen, a gift of the film industry, will be the smallest ever built...
...bugles sound. Two Red regiments, 2,000 men in dark green, come out of the jungle on the double. They blast holes in the French wire and scale Bea trice at its steepest points. ("We had trouble angling our guns low enough to hit them," said a legionnaire. "We threw grenades down, but they kept on climbing like monkeys.") At 2000, the Communists overrun one legion company. At 2 200, they attack the Algerian battalion on Gabrielle. At midnight, they go for De Castries' southernmost position, but there the French guns cut them to pieces...
...their areas, argued that 1,000 cases were not enough to prove the safety of the vaccine or give a valid indication of its effectiveness. They suggested advance trials of 10,000 and 50,000 subjects. This would have meant a full year's delay of the large-scale national trials...
Baroque and Classical bassoon compositions make formidable technical demands on the player. Scale passages, intricate ornamentation, and even arpeggios must be tossed off at great speed, yet retain the graceful framework in which they were conceived. Alexander Gelley '55 and Theodore Schultz 7G not only surmounted purely technical obstacles; they brought a delicate clarity to the occasionally obscure scoring. Their selections ranged through Couperin, Telemann, and Mozart, 'and Mr. Gelley represented the modern solo repertoire with Hindemith's Sonata...
...will be a "breeder" designed to make more fissionable fuel (plutonium) than the U-235 that it consumes. It will generate 15,000 kw. of electricity (the experimental breeder at Arco, Idaho generates only 170 kw.), and its pumps and other components will be big enough for a full-scale breeding power plant...