Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade. He plays poker and politics to win. In inter national politics he has usually won. Therefore he must have felt decidedly uncomfortable last week at the unanimous opinion of political observers that on Nov. 6 he was not only going to lose, but lose on an almost unprecedented scale...
Loyalties (Associated Talking Pictures). That the defects in this serious, painstaking adaptation of John Galsworthy's play are so obvious is partly because they are on the surface. Directed by Basil Dean, one of the backers of this British company which is planning wide-scale distribution in the U. S., the story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice...
1.Are you in favor of continuing the N.R.A policy of having industrialists govern national policies of business through their code authorities? Russell: Yes, if more effective power is given to consumer Luce: Yes, provided protection can be given small scale industry...
...that much. One of the prime reasons for high rents is the cost of labor on the job. At Hillside, bricklayers get $13.20 a day, plasterers and stonecutters, $12; carpenters, masons, electricians, $11.20. As every contractor knows, there can be no low-cost housing at such a wage scale for the building trades...
...baffled onlookers were made of sterling stuff. Howling with rage, a few of the nimbler spirits began to scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern...