Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of compounds, is built on the fact that carbon atoms combine with one another to form rings and chains. Nitrogen atoms will do the same thing to a limited extent, but making nitrogen atoms link up with one another is extremely difficult on more than a laboratory scale. Hydrazine, which has two linked nitrogen atoms each attached to two hydrogen atoms, is the first of these linked "hydronitrogens" that has been produced outside the laboratory in appreciable quantities...
...possible (though not probable) that the U.S. was exploiting this unrest by means of wide-scale clandestine activities that could not be openly discussed. One of the principles of the Dulles liberation theory, however, is that by its public actions the U.S. Government could aid and intensify resistance to Communist tyranny. Yet now that resistance had arisen, the U.S. Government seemed unwilling to risk any public action more effective than an expression of sympathy for the East German rebels...
...River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past, radiation detection devices went wildly off scale. Inside the canvas was a 2½-ton aluminum tank, probably the most troublesome radioactive object that man has ever handled...
...City of Gold shakes more or less continually because of "rock falls" and "rock bursts" in the great mines under its skyscrapers. It gets from six to ten tremors a day. Most of them are less severe than the worst tremor last fortnight, which registered "four" on the scale of earthquake severity, and was equivalent in release of energy to the explosion of 4,000 tons of dynamite...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...