Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelmingly important to avoid any danger of permanently discrediting the sound and necessary policy of Federal legislation for economic security by attempting to apply it on too ambitious a scale before actual experience has provided guidance for the permanently safe direction of such efforts. The place of such a fundamental in our future civilization is too precious to be jeopardized now by extravagant action...
...Specify the wage scale to be paid under construction contracts let by the government...
Stanley Walker had to take many a jibe for his step down in the journalistic scale. Said he defensively: "I don't know anything about this picture-paper business, and it's time I learned. It's a faster game than I've ever been in, and I'm going to lose a whole flock of inhibitons. If some ideas I have should work out, this will be the goddamndest paper you ever...
...peace on the Potomac was devised by no long-headed powerman but an Army engineer serving as assistant to the District of Columbia's Engineering Commissioner. Head of his class (1911) at West Point, Major William E. R. Covell based his plan on somewhat similar experiments in sliding-scale returns made as far back as 1876 by Britain's London Gas Light & Coke...
...purr magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must...