Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year troubleshooter. Smith raised money and tried to make Collier's a "magazine in depth." Instead, it went deeper into debt. Transformed into a fortnightly in 1953, Collier's lost more than $15 million, while editors and writers struggled to translate Smithology ("We want scope not scoop") into a working policy for the magazine. But Collier's never succeeded in developing a winning personality. In 1953, for the first time, the Companion also tripped into...
...first time last week, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed the full size and scope of one of the nation's newest and most vital industries. In a few brief years the mining and processing of uranium has grown from a midget industry into a giant, with an output worth more than $100 million a year. In 1956 alone, the AEC's figures revealed, the industry processed 3,000,000 tons of raw ore into 6,000 tons of uranium concentrate (one ton of concentrate contains 11 Ibs. of U-235, the reactor fuel...
...House dining hall thoroughly congenial. The Grad Center has often appeared to be an ill-sorted melange of law, theology and physics students, each with his specific interest, none with a particularly large group of associates from which to choose his friends. The House would surely both widen his scope of interest and give him more opportunity to express ideas on his own subject to breathless undergraduate diners...
...Sunday afternoon, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined the festival with its strongest program in years. Unfortunately, its performance was disappointing. Beethoven's First Symphony, which should be within the Orchestra's scope, never seemed to get off the ground. Although the woodwind and brass sections were unusually strong, the strings were unable to carry their weight; the violins were ragged and the cellos unnecessarily heavy. In a vain effort to keep everyone together, conductor Attilio Poto chose calm and moderate tempi, but these only made the faults more obvious...
...William then paid the traditional respects of the sensitive traveler to the breathtaking scope of U.S. farming, the "defiant pinnacles" of its cities, the eagerness of its university students. He concluded: "Here is a people rather baffled, but a people resolved to know; a people faced, as it seems to them, with a whole globe needing to be set to rights, but determined, either with or without it, to get things done...