Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athletic Committee, composed of nine faculty and administrative board members, did not specially restrict the scope of the ruling to college students. It did not feel examples of excessive drinking were limited to undergraduates, Bolles explained. He said he planned to have the wording printed on an football tickets to be sold...
...right, the two reporters-James Shepley, chief of the TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau, and Clay Blair Jr., military reporter in that bureau-had glimpsed a piece of history that the public should be told. Correspondents Shepley and Blair decided that their account of a complex struggle needed book-length scope...
...Neumann is one of the masterminds behind many electronic brains that extrapolate election figures, coordinate weather data, and work out staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
...doesn't take a man with a micro scope or a Geiger counter to find the signs of economic slack in Illinois," said Douglas. "I have talked with auto workers...
...attempts to give the book an air of gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted on to an essentially light story; I have the feeling that they do not belong here, that they are an awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil a few years later." Of course the thought is sympathetic and rightly...