Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American du Ponts, Italy's Gualino reaped stupendous riches from the comparatively new trick of producing silk without silkworms. He became a billionaire-in lire. Only recently Billionaire Gualino was virtually sole owner of Snia Viscosa, the leading Italian artificial silk works. His philanthropies were on a scale approached by no other Italian. Sometime ago, when his affairs became entangled, "The Richest Man in Italy" was able to borrow from Banca Agricola Italiana half a billion lire ($26,300,000), which resulted in an eventual loss to the bank of seven times its capital. No charge was made against...
...learning involved in the integration of the individual to his group. It should be the purpose of any college to prepare the student for social citizenship in the broad expanse beyond its walls. How can it do this except through imitation of social living on a smaller scale in the form of clubs, teams, publications, and governments...
...unemployed. The money that can be gained from voluntary contributions is very limited. The Red Cross expects to raise $10,000,000, but this is a more trifle when compared with the amount required for adequate relief. The government is the only agency which can provide aid on the scale that it is needed. It does not seem reasonable that theoretical arguments whether right or wrong should be allowed to stand in the way of the immediate relief which is so necessary in this orisis...
...reputation included in his will the desire to be buried in a spot where it had been his custom to go to meditate on his work. A group of his friends . . . proposes to erect on that very spot a beautiful memorial tomb . . . The character should be very refined, the scale not monumental, the architecture and sculpture simple and calm...
...year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...