Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People Free." Churchill's keen tactical sense led him toward a new Tory position last week. Abandoning sniping tactics, he opened up a full-scale attack on the principle of socialist planning and controls. For the first time in months the House of Commons heard an all-out defense of free enterprise. Said Churchill...
Weld hinted that the Council may well undertake a large-scale campaign among the national body of Harvard Alumni to build up support favoring the idea of a Student Activities Center and opposing the expenditure of $200,000 for a plaque in Memorial Church together will $500,000 for scholarships...
...generally grasped that the scale of a Student Activities Center might be less ambitious; and that dropping such recreational features as a dance hall and a snack bar with adjoining flagstoned terrace could well lop off entire floors. But the damage has been done. Once the first on-paper version of the project had found its way to the committee members, the Student Activities Center had become identified with inaccessibly grandiose magnificence of the $6,000,000 stripe...
...knows precisely how much will be required for aid to Europe during the next fiscal year. But in any case the figure will run into several billions. If taxes are cut to the point where expenditures exceed revenue, it will be necessary to reduce the Marshall Plan to a scale which will be ineffective and therefore only a waste of good money or to increase the national debt to finance European aid. In the latter case bank reserves would be hiked by the sale of additional Federal securities with the result that more credit would be available to strain...
...found a growing number of women's schools aping male curricula not suited to their needs, and traced this evolution to the turn of the century when there was a large scale revolt against customs of the preceding cras--political, sexual, and intellectual...