Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always admired those painters who scale the precipitous Lowell House tower. But they don't really mind the job. It's romantic. Or at least there must be some attraction in the work because we caught one cheerful fellow, dangling from a rope some hundred feet above sea level, whistling away gaily. What was he whistling? You've guessed it. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...amount the U. S. now holds. However he will buy only if and when his own judgment tells him to. By law he is forbidden to pay more than 50? an oz. for silver in the U. S. on May 1. If he begins buying silver on a big scale he will have to buy much of it abroad and very likely pay for it in gold, thus cutting down the amount of silver to be bought. Sop No. 3. The Treasury is authorized to regulate or prohibit trading in silver, and the President to take over all silver...
Because its full-scale wind-tunnels and other elaborate testing-devices make it the world's most completely equipped aeronautical research plant, NACA's Langley Memorial Laboratory conducts many a history-making aeronautical experiment. Created by act of Congress in 1915 "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight," NACA has 15 members who serve without compensation. Of its $900,000 general appropriation for fiscal 1933, NACA spent $600,043 for "personal services," $1,545 for "transportation of things," $960 to rent an office in Paris. Of President Wilson's original appointees, there...
...this was not the explanation that emerged from headquarters; instead it was stated that if Briey were bombarded, the Germans, in reprisal, would turn their guns on Dombasle in Meurthe-etMoselle, where equally large-scale mining operations were supplying the French with much of their own raw material for ordnance and ammunition. So long as the French left Briey alone the Germans would let Dombasle alone; what hothead was there who would want to upset the apple cart under these circumstances? Of course, it the French and Germans had leveled the other's smelters, the war would have ended sooner...
...under Heuri's son--the present Eugene Schneider, now sixty-six years old, that the Schneider-Creusot company began to work upon a gigantic, world-wide scale. Its real expansion began with the turn of the contury. Eugene Schneider acquired iron mines in Lorraine and began a program of mill, foundry, and shipyard building at Bordeaux and Toulon. And then, opportunely, the Russo-Japanese War arrived...