Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. toy trains are not for children. Students build scale models of trains and construct the layout's elaborate control system. Some are working on thesis projects in Tuckertown; others are involved in government research for the Department of Transportation...
...couple of other Mexicans after class, Primitivo was approached from behind by a young tough - one of a group of Negro youths who had paused after molesting people down the road -and struck in the face. He started to lash back, but others from both groups prevented a full-scale fight. A few minutes later, Primitivo and Mrs. Margaret Kindermann, 25, his naturalization teacher, were in more serious trouble...
...country's richest land for colonization, thus doubling the total amount of national acreage under cultivation. Then Belaunde got the idea of extending the road beyond Peru, and persuaded Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to join in. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale," he said, "of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
...time and earns from $1,500 to $2,700 a year, he is docked 500 of social security for every dollar he earns. Above $2,700 he is "taxed" 100%. The result, said Dr. Wright, is either idleness or fraud, and at any level in the social or economic scale, "the illness of idleness" is deadly...
...likely, says University of Arizona Geochronologist* Paul Martin. Writing in the current issue of Natural History, he suggests it was "overkill," not "overchill," that caused the disappearance of large numbers of species. In North America, as well as on other continents, he says, "the pattern and timing of large-scale extinction corresponds to only one event-the arrival of prehistoric hunters...