Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talented, intense, egotistical grandson of President-Emeritus Charles A Eliot of Harvard. As a Harvard undergraduate, young Mr. Eliot embraced the cause of woman's suffrage. Later, when he was a professor of English, a theatrical laboratory similar to the one he had seen operating at Harvard gave scope to his feminist enthusiasms, through the production of plays written by and for women. Last month, Mr. Eliot and associates opened the Studio Theatre in Manhattan, an outgrowth and outlet of the Smith Laboratory...
...opinion of the United States' delegation that the report of the Business Committee may curtail unduly the Conference's scope, and the delegation from the United States, not desiring to delay matters, will vote in favor of the adoption of the report only on the express condition that it will be permitted to present to the Conference, or an appropriate committee, for consideration on their merits, American suggestions or such portions thereof as it may deem germane to the Conference's purpose. Our instructions are such that we would find it difficult to proceed further in the Conference without this...
...necessary assurances were not forthcoming; and when the program of the Business Committee was adopted Mr. Porter declined to cast a vote. The limit placed on the scope of the Conference was, however, thought by many to be largely academic, which meant that the U. S. delegation would have ample opportunity of pressing U. S. suggestions...
...part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...book system, is an ardent advocate of the latter method. In an address entitled The Use of Law Schools, he once said: "Under the influence of Germany, science is gradually drawing legal history into its sphere. The facts are being scrutinized by eyes microscopic in intensity and panoramic in scope. . . . I do think that, in the thoroughness of their training, and in the systematic character of their knowledge, the young men of the present day start better equipped when they begin their practical experience than it was possible for their predecessors...