Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no agreement before us and yet we must deal effectively with the question of production. The dictates of common sense demand a frank admission of the dilemma in which this failure has placed the second conference, and the consideration of the possibility and wisdom of widening the scope of the discussion to include the subject of progressive suppression of the traffic in prepared opium...
...direct hostility to the United States to a merely unsportsmanlike objection to our "semi-professional" method of training and competing. And various remedies have been suggested; we should become less professional, they should become more professional, the Olympic Games should be discontinued, the Olympic Games should be broadened in scope...
...believe there will be a next war and for those who insist there must not, this evening's symposium will be a rare opportunity. The increased destructiveness of war, through the application of science to the business of killing, is ever-present to the popular imagination: yet its present scope and future possibilities are but vaguely realized. Doctor Hall, whose researches have extended into the trenches as well as the laboratory, will explain the scientist's part in any future conflict...
Despite the unprecedented amount of construction in the past few years, it is claimed by S. W. Straus & Co. that a $4,000,000,000 building shortage still exists. The firm in question has conducted a survey of national scope in all cities over 10,000 population. Out of 528 cities studied, shortages in 389 totaled $4,050,820,000-$2,102,698,500 of it residential, $1,130,851,500 commercial and $870,270,000 for public buildings. The remainder cities revealed no existing shortage. Moreover, in some sections of large cities, a condition of surplus rather than shortage...
These figures gave point to the speech of James L. Barton, guiding spirit, who said that none can understand the vast scope of the missionary enterprise of this one denomination unless he has seen the far-flung work of its departments of evangelism, education, philanthropy, sanitation and hygiene, literature, industry, uplift of womanhood...