Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorities. Praiseworthy is the experiment of introducing Freshmen to the Houses by allowing them the right to take 14 meals in the Houses without extra charge, in substitution for an equal number at the Union. One dining-hall reform suggests investigation of another possible improvement, change in present scale of dining-hall prices for 21, 14, and 10 meals...
...duplicated at the price. Rather it is the 14 and 10-meal plans which cause dissatisfaction. Few men find either worth-while when the average price leaps to 50 cents in the first case, and to over 60 cents in the second. The intent of such a disproportionate scale of prices is obvious, to discourage meal-taking outside the Houses...
...claims that if Mr. Conant is to be consistent he should dispatch "parties of students to actually observe sociological, economic, and political questions where new experiments are being tried on a titanic scale for example Russia, Germany, Italy, and the United States as represented by our highly experimental present government in Washington...
Balance comes from two Latin words "bis" (twice) and "lan" (plate or scale). Webster's Dictionary defines balance as the "state of equipoise between the weights in opposing scales . . equilibrium, steadiness, stability." How far we have gotten away from equilibrium, steadiness, and stability in governmental fiscal policy is abundantly and graphically indicated by the above figures. The phrase that a thing is of no more importance "than zeros on the war debt" might well be amended to "on the treasury deficit...
...mobilization of human energies took place on a scale hitherto scarcely conceived. From the swarming millions of our youth to the gigantic community of workers of the fist and brow, active in one front, we see the witnesses of National Socialistic organizational art and organizational work...