Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty admittedly can be most effective when it reaches its students in small groups where there can be an interplay of ideas, where the undergraduate can actively participate in something more than the examination. But such a-large-scale seminar system is impractical in a college where the enrollment and the curriculum require large courses. Not even Harvard could afford or find the professors necessary for such individual instruction, and where instructors are of the calibre of the average Harvard section man, conferences per se can never succeed. A greater emphasis on the importance and quality of section work...
...Russian objective on this front apparently was to push the Germans back from their springboards before Moscow and the great system of rail, highway and water communications which radiates from the capital. The eventual importance of this drive depended more on German plans than on the immediate scale of the Russian attacks. If the Wehrmacht hoped to strike again at Moscow and central Russia this year, the Red Army's gain and the German loss were enormous. If the Germans had already abandoned such hopes, and intended only to hold some tenable line in central Russia, the successive losses...
...Fortress Europe was being softened. Perhaps the most pertinent comment on bombing, on the scale and in the manner practiced to date, was that after so many months of softening, Hitler's Fortress was still uncracked...
...people in U.S. radio have made such a good thing out of insulting advertisers on such a scale as a onetime bookkeeper and dance-hall manager named Joe Gentile, 34, and his childhood pal Ralph Binge, 38, onetime plumber's helper, amateur boxer, and door-to-door salesman. The eleven-year-old program has 40-odd sponsors who paid some $250,000 last year for the privilege of hearing their products and services derided. There is also a waiting list of hopeful sponsors. But last week Gentile & Binge refused to take on any more. They thought that three...
...Morgan died in 1936 with the Nye investigation ringing throughout the land, he might have been written off as the international banker who got the U.S. into. World War I. But with U.S. industry, which Morgan & Co. had helped build to greatness, contributing on an unparalleled scale to another war, with Lend-Lease giving to Britain more aid than the bankers 29 years ago dreamed possible, his place in history had changed...