Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plucked strings may at first seem too contained to be powerfully stirring. But once the spectator grows accustomed to Gagaku's own laws of time and space, the dance becomes an unforgettable illustration of the unsuspected beauties of repose, the high drama that can be compressed in small-scale patterns...
...billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise is so far not as great as after other postwar recessions...
...point Author Packard prints a chart of the social acceptability of various professions. Pennsylvania-born Vance Packard himself has risen in that scale. He began as a newspaperman (42nd place), but he is now considered a sociologist (27th). He lives in New Canaan, Conn., in a twelve-room house (white frame), and has a Weimaraner, just about the highest-status dog available...
...retained its power to stimulate the system to produce antibodies against itself-just as does an attack of the natural disease, which confers lifelong immunity. Some children who got this vaccine developed a slight rash and low fever, but no severe illness, and within three weeks had full-scale antibody protection...
...give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...