Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scope, the work is at once all-comprehensive and highly sensitive. It is simultaneously a drama of man against fate, man against man, and man against himself, skillfully woven into story. Yet the perceptive author is never lost in the grandiose scheme. The eye for delineation of habit and idiosyncrasy combine with a dramatist's craftsmanship to engross the reader...
...present, physicists from the University do their Brookhaven research during the summer, between terms, or on leaves of absence. The new accelerator, when completed, will considerably enlarge the scope of their experimentation. Otto Oldenburg, professor of Physics, emeritus, said that this development "opens up a whole new area of scientific possibilities...
...seems to me," the Judge's opinion said, "that, as a pure matter of language, private operation of private industry is not 'activity performed by the government' on an 'operational level,' and that the general economy and efficiency of such private corporation was outside the scope of the Committee...
...numbers. We have all been somewhat bemused by the staggering figures about future college enrollments which are tossed around so freely and we tend to apply these statistics ever-simply to the consideration of Harvard's problems. National and local developments will not necessarily be identical in scope, however...
...estimate of the number of bona fide first-choice candidates of top quality we would be likely to get at the peak of the tidal wave. I emphasize it because I feel that the astronomical figures of total college enrollment which have been used so loosely have obscured the scope and nature of Harvard's problem and it is desirable to try to define as concretely as possible the magnitude of the pressure we will face...