Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is made plainer by the fact that while the enrollment of the University has increased over 50% since 1926, its total expenditure has increased barely 2%. There are 20% more students per teacher here than at the average, not to say the best, State university. Our professorial salary scale is pitifully far below that of the leading State and endowed universities. The cost per student here is about $212, while at the leading State universities it is frequently above...
...Labor Confédération) "represents without political leanings all workers aware of the struggle to make final the distinction between the employer and his employes," to quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes in return for the granting of virtually all demands known to have been made by strikers...
Discovered in the 17th Century, polarization has become an elaborate science using small, costly, natural crystals like Iceland spar. Polaroid's sponsors say that it will do anything expensive crystals will, can be inexpensively manufactured in any size. Actual cost figures will probably not be available until large-scale equipment is set up. Developed by Physicist Edwin H. Land, senior partner of an independent Boston laboratory, Polaroid's synthetic organic crystals are bound in a plastic film of cellulose acetate. The tiny crystals are pulled into parallel alignment by stretching the film. The material polarizes about...
...dislike of doing business under the Roosevelt Administration. A more logical explanation was that Mr. Kent was simply tired of the radio industry. If he does not begin manufacturing something else, he can settle down for good to enjoy what he once called "the simple life, on a grand scale...
...parades down Main Street, are over. Both are now an unnecessary complication of an already complicated routine. Since Ringling's and Barnum & Bailey's have combined, such competitive stunts are no longer demanded. Fellows admits that accidents still happen under the big top, but on no such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation difficulties. But the elephants, the trapezists, the trick riding, the clowns are hardy...