Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flexner, 83, world-famed pathologist who discovered the organisms which cause bacillary dysentery, influenza, spinal meningitis and polio; in Manhattan. Appointed director of the newly formed Rockefeller Institute in 1903, he stayed on the job 32 years, nursed the Institute from a scientific fledgling to an organization of worldwide scope and importance...
...look behind the headlines into the actual-work of the Palestine Committee reveals a project which for its scope and precision, its humanity and yet its grasp of political facts, its economic common sense, its religious idealism is deserving of the utmost praise. The Committee looked at the plight of European Jews when it asked immediate admission of 100,000 to Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed...
...president appointed a committee, first just to do research for his editorials, but eventually to become the editorial board. Editorial scope only slowly transcended the bounds of the Yard, since the editors took (and continue to take) pride in the fact that reforms and improvements advocated on the Crimson's Page Two have so often been undertaken by the University administration...
...Antony and Cleopatra," "Henry V" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays strains even the plastic Elizabethan stage beyond its limits. Oliver in his role of producer-director makes the most of the potentially wonderful freedom and mobility of motion pictures, thereby giving "Henry" a breadth of scope utterly unrealizable on the Elizabethan stage...
...Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which...