Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision...
...surprise that the clearest evidence of the continuing strength of Nazi doctrine should appear first in Austria. From the beginning, the occupation forces have called Austria a "liberated country." De-Nazification was not undertaken on a large scale, controls were lifted far sooner than in Germany, and Austria is traditionally conservative...
...uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...
Mountain climbing came into its own 98 years ago, thanks largely to a London physician named Albert Smith who could not keep his enthusiasm to himself. Among the first ever to scale white-domed Mont Blanc, the highest (15,781 ft.) of Alpine peaks, Smith produced a play based on his trek. It was no great shakes as drama, but it caught on like the Wild West shows in the U.S., ran six years in London, and gave people who had never seen a mountain the urge to climb...
...villages after dark to avoid talk). But the news did not seem to discourage the growing number of enthusiasts. The Alpine Club of France has almost 40,000 members, those of Italy and Switzerland 100,000 each, with booming sales of books and magazines devoted solely to how to scale a mountain...