Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigations show that those few Italian girls who have practiced sports on a considerable scale and have married have given birth to the normal number of children, and both these and the mothers are exceptionally robust and healthy. Women shut up in houses and removed from all responsibilities of individual life are not conceivable in our time...
Initiating-a program for more intimate contact between the American and foreign members of the University, the second meeting of the International Council this year marks the first large scale attempt to bring the foreign student into contact with the other students in the University. Some 50 foreign members of the University will be entertained by the new committees in each of the seven Houses. These committees are under the leadership of M.S. Knowles '34, chairman of the Foreign Student Committee. The chairmen in the Houses are W.C. Loring '35, R.L. Brehans '34, V.H. Kramer '35, Cullison Cady...
...story of the acquisition of great wealth, through a lottery ticket by the family of a poor Parisian shop-keeper. After many trials and tribulations, the family decides that it was happier when it was poor, and consequently returns to its former scale of living...
...educational system as a whole the analysis is of equally great importance. Not only must each institution offer its students the means of answering satisfactorily the question posed above. Each educational institution must also justify itself on a broad social scale. The endowment for institutions of higher education in this country runs into billions; the institutions supported by the public drain large sums from the state treasuries. If this vast expenditure is wise--and we believe it is--the education institutions must repay society in the only way they can: by turning out educated men, capable of taking their place...
...prices which ruined him. They feel that with fair conditions and, perhaps, more operating experience, Hickman Price could have raised wheat cheaply enough to weather even last week's low prices. They see a lesson in the fact that he failed to diversify his crops. Such large-scale farmers as Montana's Thomas Donald Campbell believe that farm corporations of the future must own land in three or more parts of the U. S. to insure themselves against failure because of rust in Nebraska, rain in Alberta, drought in Kansas or hail in Texas...