Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward fascism over Socialism? And "Socialism" is a brand for New Dealers in their vocabulary. The problem of the Midwest has not had its quota of thought and discussion, perhaps because it is political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment...
Within eight hours they guessed again and came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
...those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...
Somewhat sceptical of this tale, members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club last summer decided to be the first ever to scale the mountain of Huagoruncho, more to test their climbing skill than to discover the fabled cross...
Official reports to government and Red Army organs indicated that a full scale counter-offensive was developing from the Novgorod area north of Lake Ilmen to the Desna River south of Smolensk...