Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the operators' scale committee rejected Governor Pinchot's proposed Board of Investigation and Award, on the ground that it "has power to do but one thing?increase wages...
Most men of God regard a call to a cosmopolitan, particularly a Manhattan, congregation as a clear summons from on high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried...
...where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined for her and killed himself. But she was Cinderella. She was bound for the palace...
...fact, the health field has a woefully ineffective distribution service as compared with its marvelously effective production service in the laboratories of the world. We know how to do a lot of things which we don't do, or do on a wretchedly small scale...
...whole renaissance of amateur theatricals on a dignified, sane scale owes its origin to George Pierce Baker and to the universities throughout the country which have followed in Harvard's footsteps. Today state legislatures are in favor of the theatre movement in their universities and have even endowed creative dramatic schools where an M.A. in Drama is equal to an M.A. in any other field. This type of thing is vastly stimulating as well as hopeful and interesting...