Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gained from rare bindings and fine printing is only secondary, but it can well be a genuine source of satisfaction to the connoisseur. Both the modern trend toward mass production and the advance of education have made possible and profitable the publishing of books in great numbers. This large scale production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years past, was as much an art as writing itself. A study of this kind can do much to create an understanding of artistic craftsmanship and to develop...
...personnel of the Bureau at the present time consists of several excellent musicians who can furnish either classical or dance music, two ventriloquists, an harmonica player, two men who have entertained extensively with their acts of magic, clog dancers, a student who has visited Alaska in an attempt to scale Mount Fairweather, a young American who holds the world's record for speed in climbing the Matter horn, and Chinese, Hindu, and Russian students who are prepared to lecture on different phases of life in their respective countries. These lectures are illustrated with colored slides...
Stampeded in a wild, all-parties, vote-getting scramble to voice (but not vote) approval for a proposal to "equalize" (raise) the pensions of 40,000 British veterans of previous wars to the pension scale of World War veterans...
...hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier's Weekly; Col. Arthur Foran, Comptroller of the Port of the City of New York...
When E. A. Pierce & Co. took over the brokerage business of Merrill, Lynch & Co., the firm acquired, in addition to a wire system, a large retail sales and stock commission organization and entered investment banking on a large scale. It had previously participated in some offerings (Phelps-Dodge, Curtiss Airports, Petroleum Corp.), but never before was a large factor in distributing securities. To some Wall Streeters this recent vigorous expansion has suggested that E. A. Pierce & Co. cash-rich, is taking advantage of bargains. Other observers believe that little cash has been used. They say that E. A. Pierce...