Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's worst quake since 1906, but seismologists reported that it hit only 5.5 on the Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their...
...economist named Dupont, General Motors, and General Electric as examples of the modern "soulful" corporation. Among the attributes that characterize all such companies, Kaysen noted the size and dominance of the firm, capacity for large-scale growth, and the relative absence of ownership interest...
...music in Wednesday evening's Music Club concert ran the gamut from the ridiculous to the nearsublime. Along this scale were works by three B's--not the original trio of Bach, Beethoven and Berlioz (the last of whom a fourth B, Hans von Bulow, changed to Brahms), but a new group comprising John Bavicchi 4G, Bertram Baldwin '58 and David Behrman...
...production is lush and large-scale with most attractive and convincing sets, well-handled lights, and especially colorful costumes. Damn Yankees is a real pagent, and its designers deserve a great measure of credit for the smooth staging of this rather complicated and sprawling piece...
...baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...