Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valued at $100,000, stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant-exporting China and Japan were too busy with their own troubles to protest. The fruitful Dominions took it quietly. But roars of protest rose from U. S. Chambers of Commerce. In the last...
...framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although wires which will ground any electrical disturbances will run down through the tower separated from the pole by insulators. The flaring color of the spike is caused by red lead paint which forms an adhesive scale on metal, and prevents seepage of moisture which would gradually oxidize the iron...
...reasons. It is the first time that an official answer has been given to the legitimate questions which have been raised about the status of Harvard finances. Secondly, it assures Harvard undergraduates, alumni, and employees that for at least another year Harvard will continue to operate on its present scale...
...student does not begin to pay for his education at Harvard and that therefore he is not imposed upon under the present arrangement. But in all its expenses except salaries Harvard is experiencing a decided reduction. Faculty salaries should naturally be the last items to suffer, but the general scale of living has gradually been lowered and as soon as Harvard can adjust its budget to the new conditions the benefits derived from the reduced expenses should be turned to the advantage of the student. A lowering of room rents now seems imminent; it will not be long before...
...should say that poison gas warfare is positively the most humane type invented, because of its humanity; it must not be forgotten that it proved itself the most efficient during the World War even though its use on a large scale was limited to the last two years of that struggle", said W. B. Cannon '96, George Lee Higginson Professor of Physiology, yesterday in commenting on the recent CRIMSON interview on chemical warfare. "Of the 18,000 men in war hospitals that I have recently visited, only four veterans were suffering from poison...