Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this steps of Thayer Hall appeared a solitary accordion player, surrounded by small boys, girls, and dogs, and even a small Yard cop. He repeated, on a small scale, some the tunes played at the Yard Concert...
Though probably no fairer and more farsighted employer lives in America, Mr. Ford does not embrace leftist viewpoints. His philosophy is that of the small business man on a large scale; only over his dead body would he permit the abolition of competition and the control of industry by either the government or Wall Street or even labor. It might well be his ideal for business to control the others. Likewise, it would appear that he hates the pillars of the Republican party as much as he detests most of the New Deal policies...
...that isn't the point. The point is that whenever students stage demonstrations, rallies, or reviews on a large scale, the word of it goes out over the nation. And the old people in the hills of West Virginia realize that the young men of Harvard or of Yale or of Columbia and the young men of the United States are for peace or war or whatever they are for. When you poke fun at peace demonstrations, remember that. Remember that the student, whatever scorn or contumely be at times levelled at him, is in the minds of the mass...
...trophy planned as a memorial to Newell Bent, Jr. '33, who died in January 1936 in attempting to scale Acongagua, highest peak of the Andes, will be the prize when the first Pan-American downhill skiing championship is held in Chile this July...
What surprised even the best-informed artists and connoisseurs, as they made their way past a great collection of full-scale water color and photographic reproductions which filled three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...