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Word: scopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy. We're not going to fight the next war in the United States." Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Fechteler spelled out publicly just how his ships & men could act: "If the truce negotiations break down, the Navy is prepared to broaden the scope of its operations . . . We have the capability of blockading the China coast." The Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg was equally ready for strategic attacks on the China mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Exasperation v. Patience | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Democrat whom thousands of Illinois Republicans have voted for and probably will vote for again. Even the Chicago Tribune has on occasion mildly approved some of his statesmanlike acts. Again & again he has said in speeches: "I think government should be as small in scope and as local in character as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Shaw's play - which is actually the bet ter stage piece - provides the better evening. The scope and magic in Shakespeare's that Shaw cannot achieve, the production can only partially convey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Egyptian | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Elsewhere, in small local factories and big metropolitan plants (many of them outside the scope of TIME'S map), such traditional Southern agricultural products as cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts play a leading role in the new industrial economy. Similarly responsible for much of the recent manufacturing expansion (and directly related to the industrial areas on the map) are the South's natural-resource riches: iron ore and coal in Alabama and Kentucky, natural gas and oil along the Gulf Coast, Georgia's and South Carolina's clay, North Carolina's mica and feldspar, Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...this, it is also justifiably criticized for the lack of a strong student-faculty relationship. The men at the school are the best for the type of instruction offered, but, for example, when one man teaches five courses and a seminar at the same time his efficiency and scope are obviously impaired. The Corporation should appoint a large number of younger men who will be able to take over when these professors retire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of Divinity | 12/8/1951 | See Source »

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