Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared to mobilize for total war. This meant manpower-and woman-power; every man, woman, youth and maid, of every race, color and creed who is not lame or halt or blind. The move was one of potentially vast scope: it meant, if carried all the way through, a shake-up of U.S. life so deep, so wide, so far-reaching it could not yet be grasped. It might take another year or more of total war to bring the earthquake shock full home...
McNutt, whom organized labor had once opposed on account of his past labor record, in the past two years had carefully made his peace in that quarter. Now the sun rose in glory upon politically ambitious Mr. McNutt. While the full scope of his authority was not entirely clear, men who expertly analyze White House orders were sure that snow-crested Paul McNutt, who had rejected a sure Vice Presidential nomination in Chicago in 1940 because Franklin Roosevelt wanted Henry A. Wallace, had received a compound-interest reward...
...aside from a startling short story by Mark Schorer, which, incidentally, gives full scope to the unchallenged talent of the Advocate's new illustrator, Arthur de la Guardia, the balance of this over-long issue is little more than a tribute to the editor who single-handled amassed this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song...
...editorial candidate, you will be given the chance to air your views ranging on subjects all the way from Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale to the latest arguments against conditioning classes. Circlers, Vags, book, play and movie reviews all fall within the scope of the editorial page...
...fast as decisions are made, they are flashed out-to the White House, to No. 10 Downing Street, to every headquarters that they concern. Decisions must be made swiftly. But they must be deadly accurate, for no staff ever had such breadth of scope in the world's history...