Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wage scale equal to any in the industry...
...this was bitter return for the cost: 500,000 men immobilized on the Eastern Front. Half of these men might have turned the scale in the West. Military experts are of the opinion that only a few cavalry divisions would have been necessary to widen the gap in the Allied line in April 1918, so that general retreat would have been inevitable; there were then three cavalry divisions occupied in occupying the Ukraine...
...world. What deeply troubles Herbert Hoover, who knows in a personal way something of the vicious effects of lies, is the inability of propaganda-poisoned people any longer to know when they are being poisoned. He sees in the Library's propaganda section evidence on a vast scale of "the mind's total abdication from truth." If he is right, the Library may prove to be a monastery in a dark age, where scholars may help man to understand his ancestors' errors and reason to regain her throne...
...Insect metabolism is on such a minute scale that it frustrated biochemists until radioactive tracers came along. But scientists are now discovering what goes on inside moths and flies, and Hamilton suggests that important new insecticides will soon be invented when insects' weakest spots are traced down...
...Most surprising radio-botanical find: chlorophyll in green plants continues to assimilate and reduce carbon dioxide from the air on a "small but measurable" scale, even in complete absence of light. This lightless "photosynthesis" demands that biochemists radically revise their theories about what is the most important chemical reaction on earth...