Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important branch of government in our country, for so many years, is having serious results. The taxpayer is revolting against the needless burden he has been required to bear. New local governments are made to assume new and costly services, including unemployment relief on an unprecedented scale and yet operate with reduced taxes. Many medicine men are prescribing aids for the local government in the form of state or federal assistance. It is, however, possible for citizens to organize effectively enough to bring about good local government in their city or county. But the difficulties of bringing about good...
...culture, as distinguished from a mood or a tendency, must be informed by one great unifying conception, can it be said, with any degree of realism, that in our modern world, in which are found fundamentally divergent viewpoints in regard to every basic conception, something exists on a world scale to which can be given the name of culture? If such a culture exists or is emerging, a culture of which, as the report suggests, Christianity should be made the spiritual buttress, what is the basic idea which inspires...
...onto the open ground. Sir Richard put his lips to the pipe's open end, blew. A low, sepulchral reverberation grumbled up the pipe. "The natural frequency of the pipe when blown into by mouth was about 161-that is, three octaves below the keynote of the scale previously indicated," observed Sir Richard. Evidently, "the wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have...
Currency will be kept on the gold standard. The Bonus, with payment in fiat money, will not get by. In general the financial policy of the Democrats will be not to inflate currency but to scale down debts by indirect means...
...Whatever the difficulties abroad may be, relief does not sink to so low a scale. If we are going to preserve the self respect and sense of credit obligation of the unemployed in the United States, we must start now to prepare for the future by introducing unemployment insurance and supplementing it when necessary by regular financial assistance. The sooner the various states adopt unemployment insurance, the better...