Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broad in scope, ambitious in conception, William Hervey Allen's second big work since Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26, 1933)* began last week its first public appearance. The Forest and the Fort is Volume I of a huge projected novel about American life between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...
Stressing in particular the wide scope of possibilities for education in the armed forces, the statement asserted that "It is estimated that at least half of the men and women in the service attend one of the specialized training schools, most of which have content of educational value...
Nationwide in scope, with reports from Omaha to Newark, the work corps was organized by Wellesley graduate ('17) Mrs. Theron B. Walker. No hacker she, Mrs. Walker prepared the ground carefully with files, application blanks, conferences for fitting the right girl in the right slot...
...must reorganize the draft so that there will be no exceptions. It is wasteful to allow one service to bear alone the brunt of a manpower shortage; an efficient allocation between the Army, Navy, and industry can only be achieved through a centralized agency which has the necessary scope and breadth of vision. And aside from the imperative task of planning how many and how soon, a procedure must be found to decide who should fight, who be allowed to train. Personnel experts must be established through whose hands must pass all those selected for national service. The opportunity...
Sometimes the Japs would truss a native to a tree. The Japs pulled off his trousers and gave him enough scope to walk around, but after three days or so without food or water he would collapse, choking himself to death in a noose looped around his neck...