Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most sweeping change of the week was still only a blueprint. But its size and scope were staggering. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had arrived at a realistic estimate of what it would cost to build up the strength the U.S. and its allies needed to meet the pressing threat of world Communism. The program, reaching far beyond the $17 billion the President had asked of Congress since Korea, might eventually take one-fifth to one-sixth of all that the U.S. can produce each year...
Heavy as the cost was, there was no reason to believe that President Truman and his new Secretary of Defense would not buy the J.C.S. recommendation, or something like it in scope...
...Regulation is going to be necessary, I think," he added, "and because of the scope the only regulation can be federal...
...European artists devoted most of their talents to religious art; then the secular tide set in. Today few artists even think of painting for churches. Pope Pius XII made an attempt to reverse the drift three years ago with an encyclical proclaiming that "modern art should be given free scope in the due and reverent service of the church and the sacred rites, provided that [the artists] preserve a correct balance between styles, tending neither to extreme realism nor to excessive symbolism . . ." Last week he welcomed 300 artists and art authorities from 23 countries to a Rome conference on religious...
...Regulation is going to be necessary, I think," he added, "and because of the scope the only regulation can be federal...