Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish men and women, chosen representatives of the Swedish people! ... A war has broken out, the scope and effects of which cannot be estimated. Immeasurable is the misfortune of those people who are drawn into this war. Devastating consequences are to be expected also for others...
...Booth Tarkington, Rex Beach. Few have forgotten the CPI's war expositions, its traveling French officers, such stunts as Theda Bara in her Liberty Bond booth before the New York Public Library (receipts: $300,000 in one day). But the most voluminous memory will be surprised at the scope of the CPI in Words that...
Predictions of an undefeated season for Harvard is beyond the scope of any Crimson rooter. But it's just as foolish to presuppose a season of successive Ivy League defeats for this green but coming Crimson squad...
Economic warfare must be regarded as a vital offensive arm complementary to the operations of the three [fighting] services, and the activities of the Ministry will be of the widest scope...
Audience. What gave World War II its hectic, high-speed air? Unlike any war in history, its outcome, scope, character, depended less on the antagonists than on those who watched the fighting. Not maneuvers on the plains of Poland, but Moscow's opinions about them, about the German army, about German plans, were historically decisive; not the sinking of British freighters, but Mussolini's opinion as to the strength of the British fleet, forecast the future of war. Only 206,000,000 of Europe's 462,000,000 were officially at war last week.* But never...