Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge employs four means of studying the skulls: the voluminous literature on the subject, x-ray pictures, scale photographs, and comparative measurements. He devotes the major part of his study to the skull, as is the custom in scientific research. He studied over 400 of them besides examining many hides and skeletons which also show great variation and are of accessory value in classification...
...introduced in zoology a system of photographing skulls against a scale background, a method previously employed by anthropologists. He has a series of over four hundred scale pictures, taken with the assistance of the following museums: Berlin Museum, Hamburg Museum, Oslo Museum, Anatomy Museum at Amsterdam, Congo Museum at Tervueren. Lord Bothschild's museum at Tring, Major PowellCotton's Museum, Dr. Duckworth's collection, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...make war, declares Author Thompson, people are needed. The more people, the more friction. There are 1,792,000,000 people in the world. Chinese and Russians are 18% each; European Russians, 8%; U. S. citizens, 5%; Germans, 4%; Japanese and British, 3% each; French, 2%. Such a scale should provoke the thought of those who rate low. Author Thompson's study embraces the following danger spots: Japan, China, Australia, the Western Pacific, India, South Africa, Italy, Central Europe, Great Britain. They are dangerous because "it so happens that the peoples who are already feeling keenly the need...
...sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare...
...other end of the scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...