Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making Hollywood invest in a number of British-made pictures according to quotas (determined by the number of Hollywood pictures distributed in the British Isles); and 2) making British cinema theatres show a similarly determined quota of British-made pictures. To effect this, Parliament set up a sliding scale of quota quantity required during the act's ten-year tenure. But what it neglected to establish was a standard of quality for quota films...
...President of the United States. Your Governor understands these facts. The purchasing power of the millions of Americans in this whole area is far too low. Most men and women who work for wages in this whole area get wages which are far too low. On the present scale of wages, and therefore on the present scale of buying power, the South cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries." Not since Madam Secretary Perkins twitted Dixie on its shoelessness have Southerners taken from Washington such a jolt as came next. The President ascribed part of the South...
Unity? The Quantum Theory is incapable of dealing with the large-scale cosmos. Relativity can treat individual particles only as "singularities" (i.e., anomalies) in the space-time field-a far feebler picture than that provided by Quantum Theory. Many years ago Einstein said he would devote the rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade...
...recalcitrant instrument, he could play it with a rippling facility that put most violinists to shame. Last week Cellist Feuermann finished the most ambitious cellistic venture ever witnessed in Manhattan concert halls. In a cycle of four concerts with the National Orchestral Association he had played 13 large-scale compositions for cello and orchestra. Critics and public were agreed that if 61-year-old Casals' crown could be claimed by anyone, most impressive claimant was 35-year-old Feuermann...
...scale U. S. logging goes back a little more than a century but covers a lot of ground. Last week Stewart Holbrook covered a lot of the ground in a breezy volume called Holy Old Mackinaw which placed most emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over...