Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fishes which were isles of living scale...
...conference between the United Mine Workers and the bituminous coal operators closed last week in Miami, Fla. It was a complete dud. The union miners voted solidly against a flexible wage scale; the operators voted solidly against renewing the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 (five-day week, six-hour day, $7.50 daily wage for unskilled labor). Big-jawed John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, will now try to reach separate agreements with the operators by districts. In Illinois and Indiana, where the operators can afford to pay high wages, he may be successful. But there will undoubtedly...
Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
...Massacre and plundering oh a large scale in Shanghai would be the natural consequence of the rout of Sun's armies, except for the prompt action of the British Government in sending troops just in time...
Professor Willstattey, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915, is a famous authority on ferments in the digestive organs. One of the most distinguished of organic chemists, he has by large-scale methods succeeded in making notable advances in the study of these particular ferments. His receiving of the Noble award immediately followed that of Professor T. W. Richards, A.M. '86, of the Chemistry department...