Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football on the grand scale receives its annual vindication in the report of the Treasurer of Harvard University for the twelve months ending June 30, 1927. Without the gate receipts of the leading fall pastime, the remaining organized sports of the University as well as the facilities for individual exercise, would incure a loss of some $320,000; ergo, the most valid raison d'etre for intercollegiate football in its present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting...
...this number the regular opportunity to pay the entire bill would be welcome. They should not, and in most cases, do not care to accept philanthropy in the case of education. Since it seems impossible to develop any system which would operate efficiently in the form of a sliding scale arranged on the ability to pay, the only alternatives appear to be a gradual tuition increase or a continuation of the begging policy for American education exclusive of state institutions. The solution for the self-supporting student is in a highly developed loan fund system and increasing service and efficiency...
...artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale, "and, in fact, we could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models of all the special tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges without which...
...present were called to witness that he or she had agreed to labor for one or more years in return for the sum bid, plus board & keep and one new set of outer garments. Since French peasants omit day underwear and often night garments as well, the wage scale of auction bidding was deemed adequate...
Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...