Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in a little British magazine, The Cornhill, Author Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, said: "If Americans are placed in a situation where they feel they are not loved, their natural tendency is to withdraw. . . . This is one component making for isolationism ... a reproduction on an international scale of the response, 'Let's get the hell out of here...
University education is mediocre, due first to overemphasis on sports, second to lack of a scale of values. The practical-minded American law schools turn out lawyers but no jurists. Medical schools emphasize laboratory and Xray, not European clinical methods of study...
...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...
...developments in the technique of precipitating clouds may enable weather scientists to control the climate of whole countries, or even continents. "But," says Dr. C. Guy Suits, General Electric's director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...
...would be one more bout in June, but that was all. "I had enough. I been around a long time." Joe said he'd like to fight either Joe Walcott or Light-Heavyweight Gus Lesnevich. Nobody took the remark seriously: it was obviously part of the maneuvering to scale down Walcott's terms for a return match. At least there'd be an anguished outcry if Joe Louis fought anyone but Walcott. A reporter asked Louis: did he have enough money to retire? "Yeah." Then, with a grin: "I can always go back to the Ford plant...