Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ontario's power is priced on a sliding scale but most consumers pay about .9? per kilowatt hour...
...into West Philadelphia where he has a big, three-story studio and about 20 craftsmen working full-time on jobs which at the moment include windows for Minneapolis, St. Louis and Louisville. He pays apprentices $12 a week, experienced artists as much as $85, mechanics according to the union scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks Saint's life-long labors at making his own glass (TIME...
Urging that its membership be limited to those seriously interested in actually learning how to scale the highest peaks, the Mountaineering Club held its first meeting of the year last night...
...series of newscasts which will be heard four nights a week over NBC's Blue network. Bromo Quinine is recommended "For colds and simple headaches," and to most observers of the U. S. scene, Grove's choice of General Johnson seemed singularly appropriate. On a vast scale the General has been causing headaches in one quarter or another for the past four years-first to businessmen when he was the Blue Eagle's boss, then to anti-New Dealers in general when he began writing his United Feature column, and currently to the New Deal itself...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...