Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive officers upon whom Congress conferred the power of disposal of enemy property acted within the scope of their powers, their acts are not subject to judicial nullification or review...
...declared he would vote "yes" in the referendum. To stimulate interest further, he announced in the January issue of the Atlantic Monthly that if the referendum were favorable to the plan, he would take "a second step toward the advancement of world peace with a far wider scope and intent and an award larger and more important in every respect...
...from a great height, but tolerantly. His vision is embracing, a little supercilious, but not antagonistic. At times, permitting himself a specialization of curiosity, he draws his trusty telescope and applies its concentrated vision to a limited section of the horizon. An Arnold Bennett may contrive to narrow the scope of his mundane investigation to the intensive inspection of one unsavory Soho basement. Joseph Conrad, his seaman's vision scorning the intervention of the spyglass, embraces the entire Mediterranean in a searching survey. Frank Swinnerton, perched on a suburban rooftop, observes with an amiable sympathy the beginnings of young Felix...
...both possible and desirable, as we assume it to be, that every collegian should be instructed in the essentials of history, science, art and philosophy, then there must be a deliberate stiffening of requirements, and at least an attempt at a selection and synthesis which will condense within the scope of these requirements a survey of the field of knowledge. The student who had accomplished such a survey would no longer be a stranger in great regions of the world of matter and spirit, as so many half-educated people are to-day; nor would be necessarily have missed...
...church which lacks life rather than they? Young men will think if they are given something to think about; and most young men, although they hesitate to admit it in their more flippant moments, think about religion. Any attempt to confine their religious beliefs within the narrow scope of a literally-interpreted, ancient creed is likely to meet with failure, for such an attempt means death to thought and perhaps--to the church...