Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep abreast of Oscar Williams' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry (Scribner), which appeared last June and has already sold 18,000 copies, quite a trick at the price ($3.50) in a country still supposedly shy of modern verse. Williams' arrangement is by theme, and his choices encompass most of the best poems as well as the best poets. Like "mr u," he includes his own poetry with honest liberality (nine of his to four each for Robert Bridges and Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Those tasks would encompass the entire field of atomic research, production, engineering and application. Traditional property rights were swept aside. In the atomic field there would be no such thing as private ownership. The commission would be sole owner or would acquire ownership of all facilities the U.S. might need for the production of fissionable material; of all materials capable of producing an atomic chain reaction; of property containing source materials. It would be authorized to: produce fissionable material with its own facilities or make contracts for production; mine and refine supplies; distribute fissionable materials and byproducts; and under...
From the director of market research for a large airplane manufacturer: ". . . Giving cohesive purpose to an editorial objective that must encompass not only many moods in one nation, but a host of tradition-based attitudes in other countries, is a difficult task. Your approach to the problem deserves commendation and prompts my best wishes...
...core idea has its roots deep in the problems of U.S. democracy. In the most complex technical-industrial society of all time, American learning has spread out to encompass everything from electronics to eel husbandry-and the common body of tradition and culture that once bound men together is by & large getting a cursory dismissal as "useless" and "impractical...
Beyond its political functions the League served many purposes which the new organization must encompass, supervising such international concerns as health, welfare, education, drugs, slavery and intellectual cooperation. The choice of which. to drop, which to continue and how to make the transfer was one of the commission's big jobs...