Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year...
...reform the whole country, all it can do is to make sincere efforts to correct all its own faults and accept the national situation as a fact. In this respect Harvard is certainly among the leaders. As long as the sport as a whole remains on its present large scale the evils of the game will always exist. As soon as one sore is healed another will break out. American football will always be ailing but no doctor can do any good since the patient has no real desire to be cured...
When a publisher finds himself with that rare phenomenon, an instantly successful new magazine, whatever its type, he must expect a quick upcropping of imitations. The popularity of gentle-mannered Golden Book attracted four imitators.* At the other end of the scale of politeness, rough-&-tumble Ballyhoo last week had its third imitator; and at the same time its first serious threat of competition...
Next day the U. S. Secret Service paid Leader Benjamin the compliment of taking his "hunger march" seriously and thus helping to publicize it throughout the land. Chief Moran declared that his sleuths had learned the march was really a Communist demonstration on a large scale. "Marchers" from all parts of the country would be brought to Washington in 1,144 trucks, 92 automobiles. They would be lodged and fed along the way. They would have medical attention. They would defend themselves with stones. They would be organized in military fashion. They would petition the President and Congress for relief...
...Oxford equivalent. The physical equipment of the Oxford Union has no counterpart here. The Library of the English society is considerably larger than that in Eliot House. The walls are covered with murals by Rossetti, and other rooms in the spacious buildings are decorated on the same scale...