Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present arrangements must be definitely widened, he said, and although he felt that the ultimate solution was a House Plan on the scale now functioning in the College, the Dean saw no immediate funds in sight to begin such a project...
...Copenhagen Congress Raisz exhibited the Geographical Institute's map of Liberia, which was surveyed by George V. Harley '34. On a scale of four miles to the inch, the map is the largest that has ever been made of this region...
When it became apparent that a reduction was coming despite these arguments, the companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot...
Shrewder with his sound effects this time, Poet MacLeish has added to his impelling verse imperative noises. A woman sings a scale and the scale is parodied by the warning siren, the whine of the raiding planes. It is echoed in a boy's voice calling, is converted into an agonized scream to end the play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer...
...behind her, no hoarse flurry of twelve tugs fumed out to ease her into her mid-Manhattan berth. For three days the harbor's 300 tugs had been tied up by a strike of 2,000 tug hands, seeking $5 to $10 more a month than the present scale of $3.63 to $5 daily brings them. Last word from Longshore Tsar Joseph Patrick Ryan had been that the Queen Mary would be left standing in the harbor, "a blow to the prestige of the port...