Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Atwell made his decision, explained Judge Rives, he thought that he was complying with a mandate issued by the appellate court. He was mistaken; the mandate did not necessarily compel immediate full-scale integration. It simply prohibited the barring of individual pupils from any particular school because of race. But even this limited kind of integration should not be put into practice until responsible school authorities, acting in good faith, feel that local conditions permit...
Darkest Before Dawn. The doctors lured the student volunteers with a graduated pay scale: $20 for staying awake the first 24 hours, $25 for the second and $30 for the third day. Unlike the victims of secret police, the students were subjected to no emotional stress, could pass the time as they pleased-reading, listening to the radio, playing games, talking. Relays of monitors watched them throughout the 72 hours, ready to nudge any who dozed. Remarkably, none...
...capacity, synthetic rubber 14%. Oil and chemicals both spent record amounts for expansion. Serving them all. the nation's utilities grew at compound rates, increased their outlays 28% to $6.3 billion, and in the process added 7% to U.S. generating capacity. Among the additions: the first full-scale atomic power plant, which Pennsylvania's Duquesne Light Co. put in operation at Shippingport to serve eventually the needs of 120,000 customers...
...showing cardplaying in winter, early planting in March, harvest in July and cattle-slaughtering in October. Although a minor art, such miniature scenes are precious records of everyday secular life over the changing seasons. As such, it pushed forth a hardy sprout in succeeding centuries, blossoming into the full-scale landscapes and genre scenes that along with classical allegory and religious painting became the central concern of later artists...
...other end of the scale, the average age of pop short-play customers has dropped steadily, is now computed to be around 13. That fact is enough to guarantee that along with the ballad there will always be the beat, whether it is rock 'n' roll or some such hybrid rockabilly or the new "rockahula"-Hawaiian rock 'n' roll. Beyond that, the industry is devoutly committed to the sentiments that Columbia's pop A & R (Artists and Repertory) Chief Mitch Miller once eloquently summarized as: "I love, you love, we all love...