Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though this wage scale figured out at $14 per week, no employe was guaranteed a full week's work...
...Vagabond's spirit slid down the scale like a planist's finger on a descending glissando. It sunk back into reality on the Esplanade where the crowd was chattering and chewing. Infinitely far up over in the east, a little star burned and its light pierced the haze and noise like a burnished steel point. The Vagabond stole away softly and followed...
...purpose of the Institute was to study what Dr. Ely calls the "dynamic problems" of the land; to find more of them. Dr. Ely moved it to Chicago in 1925. Last winter he brought it to New York which is, to him, "a laboratory for experiments on a large scale." In Radburn, N. J., he now lives in a model housing development which he planned for John D. Rockefeller Jr. Dr. Ely this spring in Manhattan held seminars in land economics, found enough interest in them to justify the school. For backing he went to Owen D. Young, John...
...dramatic influence on diabetes matches the dramatic effect of iodine on goitre. When the pancreas is inactive or diseased it produces too little insulin for the system. Hence diabetes. Too active a pancreas produces too much insulin, causes an opposite disease called hyperinsulinism. or ''hungry disease." Dr. Scale Harris of Birmingham, who has studied this phenomenon for ten years, described the symptoms as excessive hunger accompanied by weakness, nervousness, tremors, sweating and mental lapses. Many a person considered to be an epileptic actually suffers only from "hunger disease," said Dr. Harris. Only positive way to diagnose hunger disease...
...know about them. If he had genius in addition to his Horatio Alger traits, there was only the circumstantial evidence of his colossal success in dollars. From the time he began his first important publishing venture, The Tribune & Farmer, in Philadelphia in 1879 (this followed a series of smaller-scale efforts, jobs as advertising solicitor, circulation hustler, etc. etc.) to the day when he could address an audience of 8,000,000, Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that...