Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal which the School should approach as a limit, but it is hardly a workable solution today. For lack of a complete endowment, the maintenance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences requires that the enrollment be kept substantially at its present numbers. Exclusiveness on a grand scale is thus out of the question; instead it becomes imperative to decide with the closest possible attention to individuals the kind and extent of work to be exacted. For members of the second and third groups "those better at absorbing than producing ideas, . . . and those seeking only the master's degree...
...your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...
...Even inflationists began to trim their sails when they saw the Government's credit threatened. Senator Elmer Thomas was declaring: "There need be no fear of printing press inflation. . . . With gold adequately repriced the problem of future stabilization is simplified. . . . Our currency system must support business on a scale that will insure profits...
...success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular composer he had lost his taste for conventional harmonies. He started working on the 12-tone scale, gave up the idea that there had to be a dominant keynote, took the stand that dissonance was a logical development in music...
Last week Director Vidal attacked the problem in typical New Deal manner. He revealed that aeronautical engineers have assured him: "It is a comparatively easy task to design and turn out on a volume-production scale a small airplane which will sell for around $700. . . . It would be a low-wing monoplane . . . would carry two passengers, be constructed of a new steel alloy, fitted with an eight-cylinder, smallbore engine . . . and equipped with a geared propeller. Top speed probably would not exceed 100 m.p.h. The outstanding feature would be the landing speed of about 25 m.p.h. which would be brought...