Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters Committee recently approved the plan, noting that there will probably be about 150 new places in the Houses, and that large-scale deconversion is precluded because undergraduates "cannot afford or do not want to pay for it." They pointed out that in the thirties when graduate students lived in the Houses they were "a valuable addition to House life...
...basis of this system is the row--the twelve tones of the tempered scale set in a particular order by the composer. Once he picks a row, he can manipulate it in countless ways and at the same time avoid any suggestion of tonality, since each note is equal, i.e. none of them is emphasized as tonality emphasizes its main tone, its resting point. A substantial part of the system's appeal to composers lies in its highly organized nature: the destruction of the complex system of tonal relations seems to demand another complicated set of rules. Schoenberg, the twelvetone...
Alexander A. Guber, professor of History at Moscow University, and editor of the journal "New and Newest History," said in the latest issue of his periodical that "acquaintance with the first American university" he visited showed him to "what an outstanding scale" the study of Soviet history, economics, and culture was carried on in the U.S.A...
...results showed a comeback in Ike's popularity since his alltime low in recession-ridden April, when 49% approved and 35% disapproved. Ike's all-time high on the Gallup popularity scale: 79% at the time of the Geneva summit meeting in July 1955, and again at the start of his second term in January...
...dealings with the big powers, Cambodia's saxophone-tootling Prince Norodom Sihanouk tries to play it real cool at both ends of the scale. The 36-year-old Prince (who resigned as King in 1955 because he likes being Premier better) has welcomed aid missions to Cambodia from the U.S., France, Russia and Communist China alike. After tours of Red China and the U.S., he proclaimed himself impressed by both. But Neutralist Sihanouk is sadly out of tune with his next-door neighbors on the Gulf of Siam...