Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...
...long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious wine pressed from them cannot be contained...
Both the wording and the scope of this section appear so broad that a zealous prosecutor might, using the Act, jail a citizen who was naive, but decidedly loyal...
...progression in the scope of Economics courses is being worked out by gradual revisions in existing courses, Burbank said. Economics 1, covering the whole field, will be followed by five courses, theory, history, money and finance, business organization, and labor...
Each of these will be all-inclusive in its field. What is now money and banking will include more public finance. History will also be expanded in scope. A student's senior year will be devoted to advanced courses in a few of the five fields...