Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That you should have been able to preserve the art not only of creating armies almost at the stroke of a wand-but of leading and guiding these armies upon a scale incomparably greater than anything that was prepared for or even dreamed of, constitutes a gift made by the officer corps of the United States to their nation in time of trouble, which I earnestly hope will never be forgotten here...
...Atlantic, the U.S. Navy was ready for full-scale maneuvers; in the Pacific the U.S. Army Air Forces would follow suit...
...fabulously rich, famously rotund Aga Khan came to Bombay to be publicly weighed, like any of his jockeys. Unlike any jockey, the Aga Khan tipped the scale at 243½ lbs. While the spiritual leader of Ismailite Mohammedans sat in a gold-brocaded chair bestowing blessings on the throng, bearers piled glittering diamonds on the other side of the scale. Their value was about $2,200,000. Fifty thousand Ismaili, crowded into Bombay for the occasion, were humbly grateful when the Aga Khan gave the money back to them, in trust...
...trend was now away from the steaming Caribbean coast to the drier country on the Pacific side and to new areas in the Dominican Republic. Symbolizing the changing course of banana empire, United Fruit's "Great White Fleet" would operate on a large scale for the first time in the Pacific. There, presumably, it would continue to accommodate passengers in the spirit of the Great White Fleet's unofficial motto: "Every banana a guest, every passenger a pest...
...recorded on primitive cylinders in remote Hungarian provinces, some as early as 1905. He always traveled as far as he could from the railroads, and sought out the oldest shepherds and peasants he could find. When their banshee-like wails could not be transcribed into the conventional musical scale, Bartók adopted five-and twelve-tone scales. His counterpoint was as orderly and frugal as his life, but in concert halls it came out dissonant...