Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first drawing in their new National Lottery last month (TIME, July 31) Frenchmen discovered the disadvantage of being a winner. False friends swarmed on them. Old friends grew cold with envy. Neighbors called them stingy if they did not immediately step up their scale of living. Worst of all, they were obliged to buy everybody drinks, drinks, drinks...
...this is exceedingly unfortunate, for the Securities Act was a sound and progressive step in government regulation of finance excesses. It was well designed to prevent a repetition of the large scale gulling of any ignorant public which occurred in the roaring 'twenties. With a reasonably conservative interpretation by the courts, there is absolutely nothing that honest banking houses and directors need fear...
Last week came a great day in the life of George Grey Barnard. The full scale plaster model of his tremendous peace arch was completed. Sculptor Barnard scraped most of the plaster from his hands, opened his studio doors and invited the world to enter and admire...
...Cagney are adequate in their parts. But they show a superior attitude to all the implausible nonsense: It is not in good taste, nor is it just to the public if great artists are insincere. What deserve praise are the photography and the ensemble dances on such a large scale that, were he living, Ziegfeld would feel like a cheapskate if he saw them...
...scale of rents at Yale runs slightly under that at Harvard, thanks to a special fund which was saved out of the cost of building the Colleges. The minimum rental is $110, ten dollars more that that at Harvard, but the maximum is only $400 per man, nearly two hundred below that at Harvard. For food, the College resident pays $8 for twenty-one meals, fifty cents less than in the Houses. Yale has copied Harvard in fixing the prices for fourteen or seven meals per week at a much higher proportional rate. Another plan devised at Cambridge and copied...