Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Lady of Fashion tripped from between gay board covers this spring, ran up the scale of her unrestrained amours and crescendoed into nine U. S. editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland...
...shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges wait until the reduced scale had been put into effect, then changed his mind...
...Dayton, Ohio, last fortnight, Chemist C. F. Adams claimed to have converted hydrogen into helium by a process analogous to that by which he and others claim the transmutation of mercury into gold?bombarding the atoms with electricity. If practicable on a large scale, this process would greatly facilitate the preparation of helium for airship bags. It is now obtained chiefly by difficult fractional distillation of the inert gases found in certain metallic ores and in the natural gas wells and mineral springs of Kansas, Texas and the Pyrenees...
...snow are rather too elusive to be land, the top of the world may not be exempt from a republican tariff. Although these questions agitate men who have probably never seen an iceberg, the polar bears may no doubt be permitted a yawn. That a sliding scale of import duties can have a vital effect on denizens of the slippery north seems unlikely. Even the Eskimos do not appear to be lobbying in congressional haunts...
...what principle will it be possible to draw up a scale of armaments permissible to the various countries...