Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University emerges from its wartime garb, undergraduate organizations are coming back into prominence and resuming full-scale activity once again. Not the least of these is the Mountaineering Club, which held its winter meeting last week...
...Army men, two former Marines, and one Navy veteran are enrolled in Military Science 3a, first of the advanced R.O.T.C. courses to be reinstated by the Department of Military Science and Tactics since the end of the war. Now engaged in an "interim" course, the veterans will begin full-scale Field Artillery studies next September when the Harvard Field Artillery unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps returns to a full peacetime schedule...
...rumpus over the British credit made the State Department discourage other large-scale borrowers. Paris papers predicted that France's special "good will" emissary, Leon Blum, expected in the U.S. in mid-February, would ask for $2.5 billion. His pleas might fall on near-deaf ears, even if he should argue that only U.S. aid to France would check the westward tide of Communism. Other prospective borrowers were biding their time, waiting to see what Congress would do with the British loan...
Even if prefabricators do get into large-scale production soon, they will still have one hurdle to jump, highest of all. Many a U.S. town, spurred by featherbedding unions and building contractors, has building codes which ban prefabricated houses outright or contain tricky regulations which factory-built dwellings cannot meet. And many a buyer will also find that members of A.F. of L.'s building-trades unions will not wire, install plumbing, or assemble a prefabricated house...
...there will be no last-minute changes in room assignments, or the course catalogue, for these horrors are merely scale models of the real thing. As described in the current "Alumni Bulletin," they are highly detailed groups depicting actual, though anonymous, instances of sudden death constructed for use by students of legal medicine...