Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace was signed in 1800. Undeclared also were the Barbary Wars of 1801-05 and 1815, in which the U.S. Navy was twice ordered to clean out Barbary corsairs, who levied taxes for free passage through the Mediterranean. But this new U.S. war on "piracy" was of a greater scale...
...Long Island marshes, accompanied by his docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city and its Sunday panzer divisions. Park's generation was bothered, intermittently, by the prospect that the war might reduce its scale of living or upset its weekly routine-mild drinking on week nights, tennis, golf and horses on weekends, heavy drinking, dancing and flirtation on Saturday nights, recuperation Sundays on the beach, where no serious conversation was permitted...
...Soldiers Come to Town. The War Department did not know what to do with them. "Every regiment was greeted like an unexpected guest." Tents, cots, blankets, clothing, stoves, were immediately needed on a scale "beyond the wildest imagination of the functionaries." The War Department had almost no arms, issued modernized Revolutionary flintlocks...
Died. James Stuart Blackton, 66, one of the first large-scale cinema producers; of auto-accident injuries; in Hollywood. With a partner he organized Vitagraph in 1897. The firm was sold to Warners in 1925 for a reported $1,000,000. Blackton went on relief...
...Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...