Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 3,000 B. C. Prizes will be offered for designs based on exhibit specimens most applicable to modern industrial art. The specimen exhibit will be augmented by 10,000 photographs of Persian architecture, art, and archeology not removable to London. Chief aim is to demonstrate on a great scale what has been known to only a small circle of specialists...
When the premiere was over the meagre audience applauded apathetically. Next morning critics in the public prints seemed doubtful, unconvincingly called it "music on the grand scale" or echoed Critic Herbert Hughes's (London Daily Telegraph) florid romantics, printed in the program. Reflective listeners decided Launcelot might be more effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia...
...feet with categorical denials that any of Russia's 1929 pulpwood had been produced by convict labor. Soviet officials in charge of the Russian Export Trust cabled that the pulpwood workers were free "to leave any time at their own will," that they were paid a set scale of wages and were in no sense convicts or prisoners. Witnesses belittled Russian imports as an economic menace...
Herbert V. Kohler, vice president of Kohler Co. (plumbing): "Kohler Co. is maintaining its organization and its wage scale...
...year, less than is paid many a lesser tycoon. And he is entitled to no bonus. Together with Mr. Schwab's salary, the Bethlehem attorneys surrendered their company's complete bonus list for last year. In each case the bonus is determined on a sliding scale based on net earnings - Mr. Grace's compensation amounting to 3.84% of total income. The 1929 bonuses and salaries were...