Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...models will have to be precise to the last detail. Every test that is used to train spotters, gunners, etc. requires exactly scaled models. In training gunners, for example, it is necessary to teach them to recognize whether a ship is going at maximum or at cruising speed, and the only method they have of estimating range is the size of the plane in their ring sights. Since the models are built on the precise scale of 1 to 72 (one inch represents six feet of the actual plane), the model looks to the gunner at 35 feet exactly...
Later, in the air, "time has ceased to run sterile through my fingers. Now, finally, I am installed in my function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if they had avoided this assignment (he could have) it would have brought only "a sharp sense of discomfort. As if a necessary molting had miscarried." At 33,000 feet, with the controls frozen (it was 60 below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted...
...More than 40 per cent of the college is convinced that if they are drafted their training and experience will not be considered by the Army. In the light of Professor Seavey's recent report on his tour of draft camps, this is clearly a mistaken impression. A large-scale educational campaign may be called for, to convince prospective draftees of the value of the new officer-training system. The replies received to the question on civil liberties, indicating that a plurality sees only a "negligible or remediable effect in the long run" for "serious restrictions" seems to show that...
...Illness. For four weary years China had dreamed about beating the Japanese by means of some whopping generosity from the democracies. Here, at last, was aid on the scale about which China had dreamed. At current rates of exchange the two loans would add up to almost 13 billion Chinese dollars...
...four hours Congressman after Congressman lit into Miss Chaney, Friend Eleanor and OCD. Bayed Missouri's Philip Bennett: "If [she] is worth $4,600 a year, then Sally Rand, strip-tease artist from my own Congressional district, ought to be employed at once because she would, on this scale, be worth at least $25,000 a year to civilian defense." In full-throated chorus, the House voted to forbid the use of civilian defense funds for "instructions in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances or other public entertainment," amended a $100,000,000 appropriation bill...