Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriousness of the situation which gives rise to the drive is evidenced by the fact that 2857 disabled soldiers come under the scope of the Cambridge branch of the Red Cross. Of these the men to whom the chapter renders actual assistance, may be divided into several classes. In emergency cases, the Red Cross does actual hospital work, but with the vast majority of men the organization leaves this side of the work to the state and city hospitals, while it attends to another branch of service almost equal in importance to the actual caring for the sick and wounded...
...addition to the hospital patients slightly disabled veterans who are unable to find work, men who have been cut off from their compensation due to failure to report for a stipulated physical examination, and tubercular and mental cases who prefer home treatment, all come under the scope of the Red Cross. Cambridge men stranded in other cities and residents of different places unable to get home because of lack of funds may receive loans from this organization, while foreign-born or illiterate soldiers receive assistance in filing papers and in securing means of employment. The Red Cross thus assists...
...meeting of the Clubs, but the first ever held in the neighborhood of the University. The Associated Harvard Clubs began its existence in 1897 as a western organization, and although it met at Philadelphia in 1908, at New York in 1912, and at Washington in 1920, and although its scope has gradually become national, it has never before assembled at Boston. The date set for the June meeting is the Friday and Saturday before Commencement week, so that graduates wishing to be on hand that week will have to come only a few days earlier to be present...
...work of the Arequipa station, which has been somewhat reduced in scope in recent years, is expected to take on a new importance with the return of Professor Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...
...Godley found a way to make it practical for amateur short waves. This great improvement in sensitiveness lifted the distance into the several hundreds of miles, and opened up great areas over which the excited amateur could communicate. This development, it must be understood was country wide, in its scope, and what was going on in and around Boston was also going on in and around New York and Philadelphia and Chicago and San Francisco, and everywhere else...