Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths of its former length, and the time gained will be devoted to electronics--enough to tease, but not enough to make a radio operator...
This new plan originated with the establishment last spring of a series of scholarships for non-residents, granting the winners a place in which to study, other than the libraries. With this precedent as a basis Dean Leighton widened the scope to include all non-residents, and notified in July all members of the incoming Freshman class of the new plan...
...diplomatic phrases that would satisfy both the London-Washington Axis and Berlin seemed pretty dismal. On the one hand, Washington was assured that Vichy would defend the French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, to make the flat statement that Vichy was following Germany's conception of the coming world order rather than that of Great...
Closemouthed about its new activity, The Air Forces nevertheless let a few hints drop on the scope of the Ferrying Command's job. At Detroit, at Nashville, at Dayton and other points it had set up stations manned by crack engineering crews. Their job was to fit transient bombers with items of equipment (instruments, armament, etc.) not available when they finished their last test flights at the factories. To man the bombers, the Ferrying Command already had around 200 air crews, was reputedly planning to run the total up to 600 before long. For this expansion it was training...
...Cordell Hull, ill in his hotel suite. He called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...