Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, after agreeing to refer the German assets question to a committee of experts (meeting in Vienna May 12) and to scale down occupation forces in Germany (with a June 1 deadline for agreement on the size of forces), the Foreign Ministers said the polite things one says to his host. Marshall smilingly thanked Molotov for keeping chain-smoking U.S. Adviser Ben Cohen in cigarets. As Cohen blushed and glanced at his plateful of butts, Bevin said, "Well, we can help on that too," tossed Cohen a pack of English cigarets. At 7:35, with a round of handshaking...
...making composition an integral part of the required General Education courses the Committee hopes to make all instructors style-conscious and extend the realm of intelligible writing beyond the Freshman level. Since such a change would be made only with difficulty, a period of experimentation on a small scale is needed to smooth the way for later conversion when the time comes to tell incoming Freshmen that six of the sixteen courses required for a degree must be in the field of General Education...
...market, the support program will, in fact, be doing just what its critics now say it does, keeping prices up. At worst, unless the prices of manufactured goods drop, in line with food, the Government might find itself pouring out millions to support farm prices on a scale so vast as to be unworkable...
...status is settled, a prospect that now seems months or years away. It may be that the UN itself should sponsor immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine while the forth-coming investigation takes place. At no other time could the real and not the imagined effects of large scale Jewish immigration be under such careful UN scrutiny. The results of such immigration would go a long way towards determining whether partition, a new mandatory power, or some other solution, would be best for Palestine. It is very possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting...
...organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...