Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Street felt that most of the large scale atomic theory will still be valid, in much the same way that the physics of Newton was still valid in its limited range, despite Einstein's Theory of Relativity...
...commission to end bus segregation by the day after Christmas, or "we will take whatever action is necessary." Late Christmas night six or more dynamite sticks blasted the Shuttlesworth house. Miraculously, Shuttlesworth and his family escaped serious hurt. Shuttlesworth next day led some 150 of his followers in broad-scale, nonsegregated bus riding, later was persuaded to call off the drive after 22 Negroes were arrested for Jim Crow violations...
...same time, the graduate school must "discharge its duty as a trainer of teachers on a scale unparalleled in . . . its history." If U.S. college faculties are to retain their present quality, "the graduate schools must contrive to prepare a proportionately increasing number of graduates. Otherwise we shall see an adulteration of college work comparable to that which has overtaken the high schools...
...ever to be inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and although his formal schooling during his ailing childhood never went beyond first grade, he holds an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard. Comfortably completing the picture of success is the fact that a full-scale Wyeth tempera today brings $8,000 to $12,000, and his watercolors, sometimes dashed off in 20 minutes, bring...
Lust for Life. A film biography of Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas), including a cinemuseum tour crammed with four-color, heroic-scale reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings (TIME, Sept...