Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chair is in scope university-wide and on the frontiers of knowledge just as the library serves all parts of our community and touches the world of learning and of mind," he added...
Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...
...problem of resolving conflicts between the educational values attached to arts, and to engineering. Founder Asa Packer (who is described in the catalogue as "one of America's pioneer captains of industry") had wanted to build a technical institution but was convinced by "educational advisers" to widen the scope of his new school. Although an old edition of the Oxford Directory might call engineering a trade, Herbert Hoover would say it is a profession, and Lehigh educators have consistently agreed with Hoover...
...hard and too fast, especially in view of the great complexity and importance of the issues that come before it," Griswold said. He stressed that the necessity of working under such intense pressure greatly reduces the efficiency of the High Court. This crucial situation has been created because the scope of review has not been revised since 1925 and in thirty-three years both the population and the number of controversies reaching the Court have made large increases...
...favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved a 14-ft.-high figure of St. Martin on horseback splitting his cloak, and the beggar, hand upraised, at the base of the pedestal...