Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
...began at 1% on net income exceeding $6,000 and graded up to 55% on incomes over $1,000,000.) Effect of these changes is to boost taxes on income from dividends which are exempt from the normal tax but not from surtaxes. The surtax brackets are arranged to scale up more steeply so that men with incomes between $25,000 and $1,000,000 will pay more. Increased revenue from normal and surtax changes...
...DREAMER-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school. FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What the profit and loss of war and marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel...
...find a country which has been able to show a substantial surplus in its budget for two successive years? . . . Japan has a deficit of ?46,000,000, Italy and France of ?75,000,000 apiece. The United States where they always do things on a much bigger scale, have a deficit of ?1,416,000,000, but the United States have such large reserves that deficits do not trouble them...
...other end of the scale is the professor who delivers three brilliant lectures each week in one or two important courses. This man has done his preliminary research work. He has taken the material he has found and has discovered how to lecture on it in a way which will arouse the interest and enthusiasm of even an "indifferent" Harvard audience: Being an inspiring personality, this man is besieged by would be tutees. Duties are piled upon him. Soon he discovers that far from lacking opportunities for contacts with his students, far from falling to impart his knowledge to others...