Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago M-Day's three wings concentrated in California. There, divided into two warlike combat groups, it played a new kind of war game. Day & night it attacked and defended an imaginary Los Angeles that had been drawn to scale on the desert sands of Muroc Dry Salt Lake (TIME, May 24). Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before...
...girls slip through the crowd and emerge alongside of a fair-haired Freshman. They are provocative, and the Freshman nudges his companion and smacks his lips. At that point the pianist succeeds in pulling his fingers from the high notes and drops to the other end of the scale, as the voices swell up in accompaniment. For a second the Freshman forgets, and by the second both have found other lightning-long attractions...
...sport news. One of the top sport events of 1937 will be the yacht races for the America's Cup, off Newport, starting July 31. For the past nine months, the America's Cup races have been a matter of formal correspondence, long-winded argument about rules, scale-drawings and fabulously costly boatbuilding. For the next three months all this will be replaced by sailing...
...preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts May 29, is for testing rigs and training crews. It is followed by the Observation Series, which starts June 12, and the Trial Series, which starts July 3. Job of selecting the boat which will actually defend the Cup belongs to the America...
...situation remains despite persuasive arguments that particular jobs are well done. The vice is that the bar has been charging all that the traffic will bear. It has forsaken the tradition that its members are officers of the court. .. . Organization for the practice of law on the large scale of mass production has contributed to the alleged necessity of computing legal fees on an overhead rather than on a service basis. . . . Modest professional standards have been discarded...