Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town than any place has been in Spain since the Siege of the Alcazar. The Peasant, leading Leftists in a furious effort to fight their way out, was reported killed in an armored truck. It was then bayonet against bayonet in what experts rated the most savage, large-scale battle of Spain's present civil...
...while in Spain agrarian reform became a practical possibility only after the collapse of monarchy in 1931, Mexico's "reconquest of her territory" from foreigners, absentee owners and large-scale operators has now been under way for more than twenty years...
Sounding the cry for a fair scholarship policy, President Conant declared "we have had fortunate experience" with the "sliding scale National Scholarship" plan at Harvard. "It is perfectly evident to me," he said, "that at the college level, and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond. They have been concerned, by and large, with a competition for the most promising youths in the income tax paying group; and at least three-quarters, or more probably 90 per cent, of the youths of the country...
...scale the heights at first but ill-discerned...
...production for the week rose only from 30%' to 31% of capacity, but Cleveland's statistical Colonel Leonard P. Ayres declared: "These developments terminate what was a kind of deadlock in business. From now on we are going to have a flexible instead of an inflexible price scale and apparently we shall also escape major labor difficulties. Both will be good for business...