Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considering the wealth of possible reading, it would be unfair to an instructor's particular inclinations to make all sections identical, equally comprehensive in scope. Although this might placate the sufferings of a misplaced student, it would be only a pony duplication of English 1. Much more feasibly, the English Department should announce each section's Spring reading a few days before Ab registration. The student would be assured of a more valuable course, the instructor a more receptive class. If overloadings resulted, second or third choices could be satisfied. Three hundred men changed their sections last term...
Council veto, had been trying to build up U.N.'s effective scope. Specifically, it had tried to increase the authority of the U.N. Assembly. The Assembly, under hysterical U.S. leadership, had made the decision to partition Palestine...
...story is this: we have engaged Elmo Roper and six research organizations abroad to do this international survey of public opinion for us. As far as we know, it is unprecedented in the scope of its subject matter. As work on the forum has proceeded, we have come to realize that this survey makes the forum a unique venture-perhaps the first ever to be based upon a true cross-section report of what millions of people think, feel, hope and fear...
...sooner opened his wage drive in Pittsburgh last week when U.S. Steel Corp.'s President Ben Fairless denied that prices had been jacked up in anticipation of Murray's demands. The price change, he said, was merely an "adjustment of a particular situation of limited scope"; some of the products, he added, were "being sold at a loss." Republic Steel's tall, greying President Charles M. White said it was "compensation for past wage increases...
...well handled and well written. They are more lively and readable. There is an alert nose for news among the editors and candidates. They have taken a leaf from the metropolitan press and a certain national weekly magazines, it would seem. Certainly the editorials, both in style and scope, are superior to those written at the time of the First World War. Special articles, columns, features like The Vagabond, show greater originality and imagination...