Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, Baritone Paul Robeson, 59, the best voice in the U.S. Communist chorus, was about to give his first full-scale U.S. auditorium concert in five years when the Chronicle quoted him as lamenting: "I am sorry now that I quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make...
...Corbin could not persuade Willie to try the next step up on the track's social scale. "I don't want to be a jockey," Hartack kept saying. "I just want to be a good exercise...
...power becomes competitive with present power, he wants the Federal Government to make cash contributions to pay most of the difference between nuclear-and conventional-power construction costs. Says Gale: "The only way our country can achieve competitive nuclear power is through the building of a series of full-scale plants like Dresden. Our program must be accelerated...
...conditioned. The prevailing odor is of strong surgical soap. The lab runs an impressive variety of tests like those for any human patient: urinalysis ($5), complete blood count ($5), vaginal smears (three for $10). X rays are used for both diagnosis and treatment. The operating room is a scale model of any good hospital o.r., with sterilizers, surgical instruments, anesthesia gear and oxygen supply. One permanent staff member lives in a sheltered outdoor kennel. A young male greyhound, he is the resident blood bank, can give a pint every two weeks...
...light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with...