Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single sacred cow you haven't kicked," said Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas to Harvard Professor Sumner H. Slichter last week. Belligerent, grey-haired Economist Slichter's cow-kicking had thoroughly be-dazed Douglas' Joint Congressional Economic Committee at the start of its large-scale inquiry into how to achieve economic growth without inflation...
...term the Dean of Students recognized 13 political clubs and of these, three dominate the scene: the Young Democrats with 224 members, the Young Republicants with 160, and the UN Council with 150. Further down the scale, the Liberal Union has its 50, and the other clubs form a cluster with from 15 to 30 members each...
...attitudes. First of all, they wish the Communists would roll up and disappear. Then they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work on the international level...
...DELHI, India, March 22--Fires were reported seen today in two Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, possibly indicating that Chinese Communist forces had shelled or bombed them in an effort to put down a large-scale rebellion...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...