Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clashed head-on over such issues as 1) the Dixon-Yates contract, which Murray opposed (with Strauss ultimately backing down), 2) Murray's proposal to ban superbomb tests, 3) Murray's contention that the AEC's atomic-power program will languish unless the Government builds commercial-scale power plants to show private industry the way. Yet, for all the differences, tough-minded, liberal Thomas Murray staunchly supported Strauss during the AEC's darkest hour: the commission's vote of no confidence in AEC Consultant Robert Oppenheimer. Murray not only ruled with the majority that Oppenheimer...
...probably no reflection upon freshman spirit to note that the Union's history has been fairly dull since their occupancy, but only such flukes as last year's fire and the recent Jubilee hoax-candidates have drawn any large-scale undergraduate interest to the building. The fire last winter ruined its roof and caused damage to paintings inside...
...born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time...
William E. Coffman, associate director of the test development division of the ETS, explained yesterday that the College Board has not yet acted on the proposed program. He estimated 1958 as the earliest time that the tests might be given on a fairly large-scale experimental basis...
...Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science and lecturer in Nat Sci 3, explained last night that large-scale changes in personnel were chiefly responsible for the broad revisions in his department...