Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to English, the new field, Area of Social Science, which began last year, dropped from 36 to 14 men. History, in fourth position last year, has lost 14 men and moved down the scale to tie with Engineering Sciences for seventh place...
...Practically perfect human beings from the standpoint of physical endurance," is the label place on the members of the Varsity crew by the Fatigue Laboratory. Their rating generally is 100, or even more, and the more normal residue of the undergraduates are graded on a proportionate scale down to zero. But it is doubtful, they say, that even the most non-athletic grind could attain this lowest of scores...
This year the U.S. will have no grand-scale maneuvers, which so heavily burden the transportation system...
...training men to fight he reduced to training them to kill without getting killed. The 18 National Guard and nine regular divisions (minus those already out of the country), having shown that they can operate on a big scale, now learn how to operate in small units with more fighting virtuosity...
...take at least seven years. The world shortage of quinine would be less serious if the U.S. were able to produce large amounts of the synthetic drug atabrine, a coal-tar substitute for quinine, developed ten years ago. Almost as effective as quinine, atabrine is less suitable for large-scale use, for it is more toxic, should be given under a physician's supervision...