Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Library owes much of its up-to-dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...
...lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which had looked no farther down than his ankles. Once seated at the execution, Cameraman Migon slipped off his shoe, fished out the camera and made his shot while the eyes of other witnesses were fixed on the dreadful scene at the electric chair...
...cover everything short of "how to come in out of the rain"-courses in "socioeconomic problems, home care of the sick, driver education, safe living, industrial hygiene, community health," all the way down to "personal grooming [and] hospitality." The result of all this, says Smith, is that "while the scope of the school is thus being greatly enlarged, we expect less and less from the student in the way of genuine educational accomplishment...
...Liberal Union brief recommended that the Council find out what relation the oath has to Harvard organizations, and what the scope of its effects will be on non-Navy students who are affiliated, however slightly, with the groups...
...March that "a soundly conceived Federal scholarship program in our colleges and universities is a necessary step" in giving American youth the highest possible level of training. The ideal of getting those two million qualified people into colleges is obviously desirable, even though a project of this great scope would be bound to raise problems here and at almost every college in the country...