Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original science tutorial program in which Bainbridge was a tutor, ended during World War II because of limitations placed on the scope of courses by the war and the lack of manpower to run the program, he said. The real problem, however, he added, was getting the students to "really do work in the tutorial without putting a 'carrot in front of their noses...
Part of this success has no doubt been due to the large scope of its textbook department. In addition, H. M. is the only Boston firm to own its own printing agency, the Riverside Press. Located on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Riverside prints all of Houghton's books as well as a large number of books coming from other editorial desks. Lower on Beacon Hill and closer to the center of Boston than Little Brown, Houghton-Mifflin exudes a more worldly atmosphere than its consciously dignified rival...
...Outside Scope of Inquiry...
...question was "so manifestly outside the admitted scope of the inquiry," Aldrich said, "that I am surprised the government has required the defendant to stand trial on his refusal to answer...
...proper burden on the sub-committee," he added, "If it was going to prefer criminal charges, was to formulate questions so that they would fall, at least approximately, within the scope of the known limits of its authority...