Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dighenis the Leader had concluded his offer with a threat to meet any British violation of the truce with renewed violence "on a fiercer and more intensive scale." But the British, too, were in a mood to test good intentions and to prove their own. Day after the truce leaflets appeared, the Cyprus supreme court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence that had been passed on 18-year-old Chrysostomos Panayi for participating in the bombing of a military police barracks. The following day the District Commissioner of Nicosia lifted a four-month-old ban on nighttime...
...Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink like a small-scale fire siren...
...guinea pigs where the female was "conditioned" by alcohol, 90% of the conceptions resulted in abnormalities, reported Dr. Dora Papara Nicholson of George Washington University. The preliminary findings, Dr. Nicholson believes, support her observations that abnormal births in humans are most frequent at the extremes of the social scale, where the most alcohol is consumed...
...will be built near Monroe, Mich, by Detroit's Power Reactor Development Corp., a group of 26 industrial firms and private utilities. Power generated by the $40.5 million, 100,000-kw., "fast neutron breeder plant" will be distributed by Detroit Edison Co. AEC, which has made only small-scale fast breeders, stipulated that the company must show its plant is safe before getting operating permit...
...Pennsylvania vigorously denied the charge, but last week, amidst the swelling uproar, the Interstate Commerce Commission announced a full-scale investigation of the whole passenger problem. Save for the World War II years, the railroads say that they have been losing money steadily on passengers during the past quarter century. By official ICC computation the passenger loss for Class I railroads (those grossing more than $3,000,000 annually) reached a staggering $642 million in 1952, rose to $705 million in 1953, dropped slightly to $670 million in 1954 and $636 million in 1955. The ICC arrived at these figures...