Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers, a $7,500,000 corporation formed in August, has a distillery in Jersey City, another in Peoria, breweries in Ohio and Pennsylvania, importing connections with most important wine and liquor regions in Europe. It plans to market on a national scale practically every known type of alcoholic drink. If its ambitious program is carried out there will be plenty of room in its selling organization for George Christian's abilities...
...which has become a Utopia for jaded Occidentals, was one of the last ports of call for Composer Henry Eichheim, a great traveler since he stopped playing the violin in the Boston Symphony. Composer Eichheim was mightily impressed with the subtle variations the Balinese weave around their five-tone scale. His own Bali, a recording of these impressions, was played in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski to whom it was dedicated. A magnificent orchestration, replete with Balinese gongs and percussives, gave it true exotic coloring...
Marked advances are now being made, and one of the most important of them concerns the study of school children in order to understand their needs and their possibilities. A teacher formerly graded his pupils on the scale of 100. It has been shown that no two teachers, or even the same teacher on two occasions, are likely to give the same numerical rating to the same piece of work. Even the best English teachers have varied 30 per cent or more among themselves in marking compositions...
Like the venerable Scotch brands, which were both bootlegged and faked on a grand scale, Bacardi rum is more widely known in the U. S. today than ever it was before Prohibition. No one was more surprised than President Jacobi of Schenley Products Co. when someone called up one day last month to say that Henri Schueg, shrewd, white-thatched head of Compania
...astute Mr. Fisher has brought are: 1) The trustees have turned the management of the ranch entirely over to Robert II instead of running it themselves as directed by Henrietta Kind's will. 2) He is not temperamentally suited to run it. 3) He lives on a lavish scale and charges his expenses up to operation. 4) The trustees have lent large sums to favored parties, none to the Atwoods. 5 ) They have not kept proper account books. Ostensible purpose of the suit is to force an accounting and to depose Robert II. Real purpose is probably to gain...