Word: scaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This fall, for the first time since formal athletics were resumed on a large scale a year ago, that goal is definitely ins sight. coaches who last year were starting from scratch in building new teams out of new talent will have a chance to go much father this year with a solid foundation...
...Republican majority in Congress, under the guidance of the party's senior leaders from hard-core Republican states, approached national issues from the old-line Republican point of view in most instances. That meant that many of them pushed for severe curbs on labor . . . for immediate wide-scale tax reduction . . . for abolition of rent control . . . and it meant that they showed a noticeable disinclination to take any immediate effective action against high prices and the housing shortage...
...these restrictions were intended to reduce the drain on Britain's dwindling dollar supply; 'but they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production...
...hour inspection of Leghorn, Italy, Columnist Robert C. Ruark had sniffed out some lively scandal, and his five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded...
Philadelphia's Boies Penrose was a great, hearty extravert, whose lust for power was as obvious and simple as his appetite for oysters and wine. At the other end of the scale was Baltimore's John S. ("Frank") Kelly; though he ruled a state, he spent his life in one of the meanest little houses in the city, and took his pleasure from the fact that judges and governors and business leaders waited in his basement to be called into his presence...