Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment of Sir Archibald Percival Wavell is already grossly inadequate compared with that of Graziani and the Italians. He is thought to be outnumbered between two and three to one in everything-number of troops, tanks, planes, big and little guns. If substantial forces were put into the opposite scale pan by Adolf Hitler, the weight of the enemy might become irresistible. Sir Archibald's chances of holding out in the Southern Theatre would then be slenderer than Winston Churchill's of holding out on the little island where the vines of empire have their root...
...faith he did foresee the need for British armament. Yet there was little credit due him for having made a "deal" to stall for time when the arrival of war showed he had failed to capitalize on delay, his armament program had not progressed much beyond the promissory scale...
...year to "Hurry-Up" Yoat, the grand old man of Michigan football. As grid coach and director of athletics, he was responsible for the development of one of the finest athletic plants in the country at the Ann Arbor institution. Coach Crisler has great material and a chance to scale dizzy heights if his reserve line strength proves adequate...
...memory. The professionals-politicos, newshawks, photographers-had only gradually come to understand that, since Mr. Willkie was no politician, his campaign, in any ordinary sense, would be unpolitical. This was the root cause of the Willkie failures and the Willkie triumphs. He did everything politically wrong on a magnificent scale; when he was right he was terrific...
...Roosevelt measure which Republican Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir welcomed. He even thought it overdue. Moving his never-lit cigar from mouth to desk, he glowered: "It is too bad that the Administration did not see fit to heed the repeated warnings of businessmen against the continuous, large-scale exportation of scrap. . . . Even now, since the embargo is not effective until Oct. 16, exportations can continue for more than two weeks. With scrap-steel stocks already so badly depleted, I can see no justification for the delay...