Word: scale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...proposed scale of charge are 50 cents an hour for work in translating the simpler foreign languages, 75 cents in the case of the more unusual languages, and $1 an hour for the work of abstracting...
...second exhibit is a model of the Stadium, which occupies a prominent place in the Architectural Department. This is of great interest from an architectural or engineering point of view, as the Stadium was the first re-enforced concrete structure attempted in this country. The scale of the model is about one to one hundred...
...descent, but was thoroughly Irish in other ways. He stood against the measure to abolish the Irish Parliament which was passed only by the worst kind of bribery. The abolition of the Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition to get land. The tenant...
...college of the old type possessed a solidarity which enabled it to fulfill that purpose well enough in its time, although on a narrower scale and a lower plane than we aspire to at the present day. It was so small that the students were all well acquainted with one another, or at least with their classmates. They were constantly thrown together, in chapel, in the classroom, in the dining hall, in the college dormitories, in their simple forms of recreation, and they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly...
Even a short account of the arrangements for the production show the scale on which the play is to be staged and its importance in the development of outdoor theatricals. For her unfailing enthusiasm, her courage in so large an undertaking, and for her characteristic unselfishness in devoting her time and money to an impersonal cause, Miss Adams has the sincerest thanks, not only of the German Department, but of the undergraduates and alumni of the University at large...