Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again, until a second line appeared in the spectrum, indicating that the hydrogen atoms had achieved a still higher state of excitement, were throwing off a new kind of light. Comparing the voltages employed to produce these effects, Dr. Compton found that the ratio checked exactly with the theoretic scale of atomic energies postulated a decade ago by the Dane, Niels Bohr, who got the 1922 Nobel prize for physics in payment for his pains. Dr. Compton's work was the first actual confirmation of Bohr's theory, the first laboratory demonstration of the only atomic mechanism...
...Work to begin at once at the old scale of wages and continue uninterruptedly...
Despatches reported a slight upward adjustment in the scale of pay throughout the French army designed to counterbalance the gradual slump in the purchasing-power of the franc...
...plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
...snooping investigations that were latent in the first proposal of the miners and against the trap of fading profits into which a lowered coal price might turn the "frozen wage" scheme. In truth the dangers of fixed wages or prices are too real to be overlooked. A sliding scale relating wages and prices would suit the operators better, but the miners would still fear secret intrigue. With all its defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires arbitration of and publicity for all the conditions of the industry, from mine to market...