Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notion that "one must learn to do by doing." Years ago in 1908, when the School first opened, its leaders decided to minimize the study of facts, rules, and routines, and that's the way things have stayed ever since. Meanwhile, what started as a modest, small-scale "problem method of instruction" has evolved through the years into the School's famous "case system...
...worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...
...team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
...Thursday afternoon early in October, a confused freshman listened to a short, friendly, round-faced man with a German accent explain Pythagoras' mathematical construction of the musical scale. Soon aghast with perplexity, he turned around and asked, "Is this Music I?" When told that it was Hindemith's History of Musical Theory, he departed in relieved embarrassment...
Yale yesterday suspended three students who used mountaineering tactics to scale the face of Memorial Hall late Wednesday night, but were trapped by police spotlights before they could whitewash huge Y's on the roof of the bell tower...