Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff of the Computation Laboratory will also conduct guided tours of the three large-scale automatic digital calculating machines, which include the famous Mark I and Mark IV computers as well as the newly-installed complete Univac system...
...great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation has yet put to sea." So said TIME (June 15, 1942), sizing up a naval battle just fought off Midway Island in the Pacific. This week, on the 18th anniversary of the battle, TIME takes another look, adds Midway to the list of the world...
...Ford Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate of $100 million a year, has brewed up such a wide assortment of projects that it is practically impossible to say where...
...funds managed to turn out a prodigious amount of work. The surprising thing about it is not that it made so many mistakes but that it made so few. To a far greater extent than any other foundation, it is a problem-solving agency on a grand scale, thinking up its own solutions and paying going institutions and campuses to try them...
...enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they can be seen only through a magnifying glass. With a head painted on so small a scale, the painter was in major trouble if he made even a minor slip. Technically, the art demanded perfection...