Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often overrigid security rules which had long since driven a whole parade of top scientists out of the AEC, Commissioner Smyth, after two years in the job, thought he had a patriotic duty to stick it out. Said he: "Developments during the past year have brought such new scope and urgency to the atomic-energy program that I have accepted renomination for a longer period as a duty and a privilege...
...three short stories could stand as ideals for Advocate stories. They are all limited in scope and written in simple language, but within their limitations they are well-handled and they have many excellent passages. The best of the three is "A Thousand Miles Away," by Charles Flood--a simple but effective story of a woman who recalls an old love affair from the midst of her happily married life. Billy Joyner's "Dark Faces" is not I think, up to the very high standard of his first two Advocate stories, but is still an excellent atmosphere piece about...
...compromises must occur, they should be in the scope of the plan, rather than in the quality. Non-honors seniors should be the first denied tutorial; disinterested juniors should be next...
...fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
...spins rapidly on its axis and at the same time swings with an odd back & forth motion. In doing this mannered dance, it probes the air ahead with far-reaching radar pulses. If the air is empty, a single line of light glows on the radar-man's scope. When a pulse bounces back from the enemy, a jog or "blip" appears in the line...