Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged "a network of native priests" to protect the church in the event of nationalistic revolts in colonies. The Vatican's reply to Mejan's book: native clergy has been the church's aim for centuries, but only recently has it become possible on an important scale, thanks to modern communications between Rome and the world's missionary reaches, plus growing education among the natives...
...Show "Truth." Blake's time, like the 20th century, was an age of rapid change, revolutions and large-scale wars. Much of his writing, too, has a peculiarly modern urgency. Yet the spirit of Blake's pictures is far indeed from modern art. He worshiped Raphael, pored over gothic sculpture and illuminations, spent seven years as an apprentice engraver, and recommended endless copying of nature as the only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought...
...nation's sluggish atomic energy program will show its first practical results." Four atomic power plants have been completed this year and are delivering civilian power; the Shippingport plant will be No. 5. One of these plants has been financed entirely by private capital, and seven other full-scale plants likewise are scheduled to be built by private capital without any direct Government financial contribution. Fifteen other atomic power plants, for civilian use, are presently under actual construction, or contracts have been entered into and design work is under way. All this has come about in 4½ years...
...SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, on which the premium payments go down as the size of the policy goes up, is proving a fast success. Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. pioneered the idea early in 1957, did so well that it will extend sliding scale to all existing policies of $5,000 or more...
...Priority. Moving from past and present to the potentials of the future, Teller predicted that the Russians "within the next decade or two" may be able to manage even the weather. Said he: "Please imagine a world in which the Russians can control weather in a big scale, where they can change the rainfall over Russia, and that might very well influence the rainfall in our country in an adverse manner . . . What kind of a world will it be where they have this new kind of control...