Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard theater began in the 1890's. With the exception of the later days of the Baker Workshop, the two decades straddling the turn of the century were the high-point of theatrical activity at the University. Up to this time the productions had been on a fairly small scale, but in the '90's they became much more ambitious. In 1889 the students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, by invitation of the Greek Department and with the aid of Harvard actors, presented an elaborate production of Sophocles' Electra to a packed Sanders Theatre. This began a tradition...
With Balzotti missing a rumor has continued to circulate in the Yard that the Yearbook Publications and a group of freshmen who call themselves the "Balzotti Election Committee," have conspired to engineer a large scale hoax on the freshman class...
...night in 390 B.C., a detachment of Gauls crept up Capitoline Hill and tried to scale the walls of ancient Rome. The Roman sentries slept, but not the sacred geese in the Temple of Juno. They squawked, Rome waked, and the attack in the night was repelled...
...calls for a winner-take-all plebiscite, a plebiscite the Italians would almost certainly win. Any lasting solution, of course, must be worked out at a meeting of the countries concerned. The United States and Britain, it becomes more clear, will have to establish heir own policy before full-scale bargaining can begin. Such pre-conference agreements must meet certain basic requirements: Triestc must be made a free port, the Zones must not be so completely separated that the trade both sectors require is impossible. And these negotiations must save the prestige of both countries and abate the rampant nationalism...
...industry, said the company, "large-scale American participation" in developing overseas supplies is second in importance only to "a vigorous and expanding" domestic business. As an example of the mutual benefits of free trade, Standard cited Venezuela, which last year exported $330 million in oil to the U.S., and in turn imported more than $500 million in goods from the U.S. Said Jersey Standard: "When we trade our products for those we do not have, or for those which other people can make more advantageously, we benefit by having a wider variety of things to enjoy or by getting them...