Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicate that he has so low a mentality that he can be duped by . . . the Commies. He is well educated. He has been more than successful in a competitive business world. It is absolutely impossible to dupe such a well-informed and intelligent man on such a broad scale...
...Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
This week, U.N. Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte laid the refugees' plight before the Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
...reason for Baldwin's slowness was a shortage of capital to change over to big-scale diesel production. Westinghouse's purchase of $7,500,000 worth of treasury stock (at $15.11 a share) gave Baldwin some of the new working capital it needed. With Westinghouse at the throttle, it looked as if Baldwin was ready to highball...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...