Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...
...than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some $450 million in wages. Their $150 million welfare fund, drained...
...commission is sure the converter will work. The theoretical calculations are complete; the engineering designs are almost complete. No fuel has been bred so far because the reaction will not work except in a full-scale plant. A $3,500,000 plant will soon be built at Arco, Idaho...
Miss Elsie Rowland of the Roxbury Neighborhood center backed Skelly's opinions but added that "this is the first large scale tutoring being done by college students and in many places Boston school authorities have resented the Harvard arrangement as an insult to their schools...
...Entire Family. Peripatetic Hearn was completely bowled over by Yokohama -"A world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale . . . where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed." His shortness no longer embarrassed him: Japan was a "realization . . . of the old [folklore] dream of a World of Elves." He loved Japanese ideographs, Japanese "delicacy," the "atmospheric limpidity" of the Japanese climate...