Word: scale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Kuwana, assistant in the Entomology department of Stanford University, California, has just returned from a trip to Japan, his native country, where he has been pursuing successful researches in economic entomology. He has found six varieties of insects, all of which prey upon and eradicate the San Jose scale, America's most dangerous fruit pest...
...following list will give some idea of the scale on which Memorial Hall is conducted: 1000 pounds of beef is used at a breakfast, 300 pounds of fish, 1700 pounds of chops, and one-quarter of a barrel of rolled oats or one-eighth of a barrel of rolled wheat. Seven bushels of potatoes and 25 pounds of coffee are also used...
...there is a garden spot around the Warren House, which is not to be found or easily created about the localities on Harvard square. Those who have visited the Oxford Union will not easily forget the attraction added to the club-house by this combination, even on a small scale. T. W. HIGGINSON...
...them in ourselves, the play is indeed the work of a master builder. Swinburne's poetry represents that transitionary stage between articulate ideas and music; where the mere sound of the words carries more weight than their definite meaning. Ibsen's play stands at the other end of the scale, where the subtlety of idea and emotion has passed beyond the range of verbal expression...
...work consists in making a detailed map of all the country in the immediate vicinity of Cambridge with reference to trees, plants, birds, minerals and hills. An idea of the size of the map itself may be gained from the fact that the drawings will be made on the scale of five inches to the mile. The present officers of the society are: M. L. Fernald '97, president; G. M. Allen '01, vice-president; L. W. Riddle '02, secretary; C. E. Preston 1G., treasurer...