Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has produced nothing that begins to match the poignant tragedy of this picture since "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...
...first lecture the scope and causes of reading difficulties will be discussed; thereafter the Harvard Reading Films will be shown for eight minutes during every class, followed by a short quiz to determine how much the student has learned from the showing. Work in the manual, which teaches selection of important ideas, skimming, and quick comprehension, concludes the period...
...Hitler had not changed World War II's pattern by invading Russia, the scope of U.S. production as now set up might well have proved ample. The output of tanks, now around 400 a month, is well ahead of the Army's original estimates. Big contractors already in production, besides Chrysler, are American Car & Foundry Co. (light tanks) and Baldwin Locomotive and American Locomotive (mediums). When all are rolling at top speed (e.g., Chrysler, 15 a day) the output (round figure: 20,000 a year) will meet the demands of the Army and Lend-Lease...
...committee will work with representatives of the Student Council and of other organizations such as the Harvard Liberal Union and the Student Defense League, which have volunteered to handle such aspects of the new program as obviously fall outside of the scope of P.B.H...
...good measure of sweet notes from the orchestra pit. It's all there but the script; one-quarter of it plus a good script would have made a better product. But, though O'Brien dies a thousand deaths, the show will probably live on, sustained by sheer scope and variety...