Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readjustment difficult. But veteran and non-veteran alike find hard the complex of college, national, and international problems which now vie for their attention. The temptation is great to become immersed in the close-at-hand affairs of the University, or to concentrate overly much on tasks of limited scope such as shipping food boxes to foreign students. Even greater is the temptation to follow the example of Noah who returned to the safety of dry lands after the deluge only to partake excessively of the fruit of the vine. But always there is the realization that the problems...
...failed to go back immediately would lose their jobs and all their seniority rights. And if they balked as long as 24 hours they could be drafted into the Army. All net profits made under Government operation would go into the U.S. Treasury. Harry Truman, well aware of the scope of the bill, carefully put a limit on it: six months after the officially proclaimed...
...came up to blow. But the whales, nimbler than U-boats, dove out of Asdic's sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...
...demand for greater American meat imports. The loan should be turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope, the food concessions offered Argentina's satellite countries by Peron must be matched with make-do grants of consumers' goods until we can manage to fill all of our food commitments...
...ship itself needed no radar or other special equipment. When the pilot climbed aboard outside the harbor, he carried a small portable radiotelephone. Over it, he hailed the shrouded shore. The nearest radar operator, watching through his "scope," told precisely where the ship was, and what it had better do next...