Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin or absolute scale. Scientists have never quite chilled matter to that point, and never expect to. But their approaches to it have shown them a great deal about how the laws of thermodynamics operate...
When Marco Pallis first went to India in 1933 he was mainly interested in climbing mountains. He climbed some. He also debunked the notion that Europeans can scale the great Indian peaks only with the help of platoons of native porters. In his spare time he drank buttered tea and, with a companion, played Bach's Two-part Inventions on viols...
...Organize on a grand scale efforts to evacuate the children and some of the women of the British Isles...
...individuals would not fit preconceived categories. Sheldon attacked the pigeonholing problem from another angle: that of three structural components or characteristics (of his own devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three-digit number showing his quantity of each component-such as 443, 172, 236. There would be no individual who would...