Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON could ascertain last night, no American college or university has attempted this experiment on such a large scale before. An example of it here is the Norton Chair of Poetry, vacant this year, which has been filled by such men as T. S. Eliot '10, and Gilbert Murray. They have been permitted to lecture on any of the different aspects of poetry. Robert Frost, the New England poet, has held a similar position at Amherst...
...Sears found this out by showing his subjects jokes which were flashed on the screen by a stereoptician. At the critical moment the machine broke down. When the machine resumed operation, the point of the story was revealed. The subjects were ask to rate the story on a simple scale indicating whether is was very funny, in different, or very poor...
...think a rich man who cheaply disposes of his dead is just as full of vanity as the poor man who spends more than he can afford. In other words, a man should be buried somewhat on the financial scale which he lived...
...budget, proposed no means, however vague, for doing so. Instead, he left the question of ending recurring deficits to such time as private industry may re-employ the unemployed. And his work relief plans meant that the per capita cost of maintaining the unemployed would continue on a scale greater than ever before...
This surplus amounted, for the college year 1933-34, to a little over one cent per meal. With such a narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...