Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This illegal traffic to the inner man was conducted on a large scale, and was as severely punished by the authorities as is that of latterday liquefied bootlegging. In the court records of 1672, is an entry to the effect that "Edward Pelham, of the Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following...
...table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife is to plan the next day's meal to be such that her family will not complain of the lack of variety. The same is true, on a larger scale, of the restaurant owner, and especially of the proprietor of a college eating place, where the trade is the same every...
...European states that traders find their dealings menaced by uncertainties not unlike those encountered when national currencies are fluctuating rapidly. Instances have occurred in which minor European states have deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed, international commerce would at least be able to adjust itself to a definite scale of "necessary evils." Paradoxically, though last week's manifesto seemed destined to produce no real...
...incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale production as applied to the spiritual side of life. He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter...
...student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer, too little as a college student...