Word: scaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rushed on to steamers in the Channel with the Nazis only a few jumps behind, hard-pressed, sweating surgeons had to have some new and faster technique of treating wounds. Fortunately, most of them had read last winter the revolutionary work on wound surgery written after the small-scale war in Spain by brilliant Dr. Josep Trueta of Barcelona, now in England (TIME, Jan. 15). In treating 1,073 projectile fractures, Surgeon Trueta obtained wholly satisfactory results in 976 cases and there were only six deaths. His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting...
...Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy, as Ed Stettinius' late, great father, Edward R. Stettinius, did on a broader scale from shorts to siege guns in World...
Lest this proposed handout get South America into bad habits, Berle and friends proposed to attach a rider: Latin Americans, to get help for their surpluses, must also agree to scale down their production of competitive and unmarketable crops, produce strategic materials which the U. S. needs instead. At that point the emergency scheme would dovetail into large schemes (such as a long-term capital bank) for the hemisphere's economic integration. This week, spurred by France's surrender, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Wallace and Hopkins united in announcing that some such plan lay right around the corner...
...showpiece of vituperation, In Defense of Love is, to put it mildly, stimulating. As an exhibit of bad critical behavior, it is depressing. Because it is exceedingly readable, it will have an appeal out of all scale to its worth...
...finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction-to-scale of a science too liable to theological elephantiasis is most devoutly to be hoped...