Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later the English Society agreed to cover the costs of educating the Indian students and of building the Indian College (the cost of the building not to exceed 120 pounds, "besides glasse"). But President Dunster carried out plans on a more ambitious scale, and the Society ended up paying nearly 400 pounds for the building. (To some modern eyes, the whole Indian project appears to have been a blind to get a new building for Harvard...
...missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect a full-scale invasion, but it believes that the current raids are part of a gathering spring offensive that is aimed at undermining South Korean confidence and morale...
...charge that Springer has manipulated public opinion in order to create a repressive, Fascist-style society in West Germany and an atmosphere of hate against them. Even before the Dutschke incident, the most popular lapel buttons among radical students was Enteignet Springer-Dispossess Springer. In response to the wide-scale attacks against Springer's plants, Bild Am Sonntag, his big Sunday paper, vowed: "No terror will bend us." His readers seemed to like what they read. Despite all the efforts of radical students to stop the distribution of his papers, they enjoyed last week the best sales in their...
...sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...
...Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing, which is uniquely sensitive to a downturn when rates jump-as mortgage lenders agreed they surely will...