Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat the deficiency, Marlboro has relied heavily on the concept of general education. The faculty believes that by giving a student general knowledge of many fields of learning and by encouraging him to extend his scope of knowledge independently he will be able both to cope with problems of modern living and engage in advanced study on a higher level...
...wish to dramatize for all America," said President Pusey, the size and scope of the task facing higher education--together with its financial implications. By strengthening Harvard College we hope to catalyze throughout the country a new realization of the necessity for raising faculty salaries and for strengthening in other ways the institutions which must train the future leaders of our country...
Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
Scraping & Pruning. Ever since it became apparent that India's overambitious second five-year plan was more of a bite than India's unmobilized resources could chew (TIME, Aug. 5), resourceful Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari has been doing his best to 1) reduce the scope of the plan itself, and 2) attract the foreign capital, government or private, that the country needs to keep going. Three weeks ago, while Nehru was still diligently distilling euphoria from the plan's prospects...
...Clouded Glass. Novelist Cozzens has a mind like a lamp, and every character and event in By Love Possessed is bathed in the glow of a reflective intelligence. Every motivation rings true; each episode is part of a seamless whole; the taste of reality is unmistakable. The audacious scope of the novel is nothing less than the anatomy of love-from filial to fraternal, from spiritual to concupiscent, from self-regarding to self-sacrificing. Its disenchantment is equally total-the possessors are methodically dispossessed, love conquers nothing, the lovers lose...