Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejected the idea of keeping the U.S. forces home to defend the U.S., pointing out that then no aid could be sent to China; the southwest Pacific would fall to the Japanese, who would then be able to launch large-scale attacks on the U.S. and Alaska; that Turkey, the Suez Canal, North and West Africa would fall to the Nazis; that the British and Russian efforts would be crippled. Such "foolish advice," he said, would result in a "turtle policy": "We prefer to retain the eagle as it is-flying high and striking hard...
...United Kingdom joined hands this week in a Declaration of Principles which may well be the foundation stone of future economic relations between the two countries. The agreement moves to exorcise the specter of post-war debts; to break down tariff barriers on a scale undreamed of; to cement a post-war economic union. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Britain's Ambassador Lord Halifax signed the agreement...
...Report. The announcement of great new gains did not come. Instead a communique announced a full-scale attack on the central front, a push by tank squadrons and massed infantry, sharp aerial fighting. In the first day, the communique said, the Russian spearhead had reached to within 50 miles of the German winter headquarters at Smolensk...
...Summer Session rated high enough to merit the granting of full credit to Harvard students who took them. If this can be done in regard to one department at one particular college, there's no reason for the same thing not to be done on a much wider scale. And Havard's prestige wouldn't suffer in the bargain...
Today we find war waged on a scale more vast than ever known in the world before. What has happened to the contemporary American play-wright in the midst of this confusion and perplexity? Only Eugene O'Neill remains apart from the turmoil, continuing work on a gigantic cycle of nine plays, to be called "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed." He has the true artist's contempt for problems of the moment; his sole concern is with humanity in all time. To many critics this seems a selfish and unpatriotic occupation when our nation is fighting for its basic...