Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Office Soldier. Itagaki matured in an army which was singularly selfless, yet afforded wide scope to men of his particular stamp. He was not a great fighting man. In fact, in 1938 at the famed battle of Taierhchwang (TIME, April 11, 1938 et ante), the Chinese made a military fool of him, trapping his forces and killing 25,000 Japanese in a battle which may yet go down as one of the determining conflicts of history...
...especially breast, are caused by "poisonous" hormones brewed in the endocrine glands along with normal hormones. Problem is to discover what these cancer-causing hormones are. New, hitherto undescribed glandular substances have been isolated from the urine of patients. This may in time "provide a technique of almost unimaginable scope" for: 1) investigating cancer in early stages by examining urine; 2) treating the cancer by neutralizing abnormal hormones...
...theological students, who have already been declared necessary, the demand for specialists not listed must be greater than the measure supposes. Yet this is the first time the government had aided students directly without tying on picayune work for which busy men have no time. The limited scope of the measure, however, may be partially excused on the grounds of experiment...
...giving this board the power to pass on all orchestra contracts, and by authorizing it to issue reports on individual agents for the use of House Committees, the Council has met a portion of the challenge. But unless its scope is expanded the Committee will fall short of its ultimate objectives, for its charter refuses to recognize the special conditions which the war imposes. These are the times that empty students' wallets and fill their hours with academic duties. The sparse, turn-out for spring dances showed that the Houses were supplying more dances than the student market would bear...
...freely admit that hereditary rights are strictly limited to private property, and that even the inheritance of private property does not carry with it undue privileges. Certainly it is a principle of this republic that the inheritance of private property shall not determine the opportunity for education nor its scope...