Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schillings pleased Utica. Father George furnished most of the melody on a piano-accordion while Master Stan oom-pahed bass runs for Down the Field, Ragging the Scale, Christopher Columbus. Accustomed to learn his pieces entirely by ear, Stanwurt appeared completely at ease when Mr. von Schilling tried to confuse him by varying the rhythm and tempo of Dixie. Expert musicians pronounced Stanwurt's embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that...
...Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass, evolved his scheme for teaching forestry through models. With some $30,000 from an anonymous donor, Director Fisher gave the contract to the professional model-making firm of Guernsey & Pitman. His instructions were that all the models should be of the same scale (half an inch to the foot), that the trees should not be random twigs and bits of painted sponge, but accurate reproductions which any naturalist could recognize...
...identical conclusion on a broader scale was announced last week in the August issue of FORTUNE in an article which digs deep into the underlying causes of the whole U. S. traffic problem. In 1935 some 827,000 U. S. automobile accidents killed 37,000 persons, permanently crippled 105,000, hurt 1,000,000 more, with a total property loss of some $1,600,000,000. One of the first to see that this carnage and waste on the highways was not due to a flock of local factors but to a few basic inefficiencies was a young Leland Stanford...
...question a voyager could ask a ship's officer except "When do we dock?" Of special interest to sea-travelers is a section which does for the world's merchant marine what Jane's Fighting Ships does for the world's navies. Consisting of accurate scale drawings of the principal merchant vessels of the seven seas, it enables any landlubber to identify any distant liner from the huge Queen Mary to the little Polish Batory...
...Russia rejoins the rest of the civilized world in prohibiting abortion, except where necessary to preserve the life of the prospective mother, or in extreme cases of venereal disease. Reason: Soviet gynecologists have convinced the Kremlin that 16 years of easy abortion on a nation-wide scale have impaired the health of hundreds of thousands of Russian women, however much it achieved in realizing Communist ideals of equality of the sexes and a single Soviet standard of morality...