Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find a yardstick for his research. "A man's intelligence quotient is of no value here," says Grant, "because intelligence isn't what helps a person in getting along with others. To measure ability to 'get along,' we hit on a social integration scale...
...Manhattan apartment, when he sat down at his desk determined not to get up until he had thought of a "great" idea. His mind turned toward quiz shows and Mount Everest, and he thought that the Everest of quiz shows would be one with increasingly tough peaks to scale. Then he wondered what he could give as a commensurate reward to anyone who scaled the highest peak. He remembered an old giveaway show, Take It or Leave It, later known as The $64 Question. He said to himself, "$640?" No. "$6,400?" No. Then it came to him. He knew...
What European immigrant labor did for the expanding U.S. in the 19th century it is doing on a smaller scale for Venezuela in the 20th. Since World War II, some 340,000 foreigners, mostly skilled workers, have migrated to Venezuela and eagerly gone to work on the booming country's new buildings, industries and farms. Last year more than 71,000 entered, giving Venezuela the highest per-capita immigration rate in the world...
...Witcutt, son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor, was studying law at Birmingham University when the attraction of G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome. Distributists took one look at the misery of the workingman and concluded that large-scale industry should be abolished in favor of a social-industrial structure more like that of the Middle Ages...
...Large-scale uses are unlikely until the price comes down. The batteries are ex pensive because they are made of highly purified silicon ($280 per lb.), which must be "grown" by a tricky process into a single crystal about the size of a fat banana. The wafers are cross sections one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and they must go through a subtle chemical treatment be fore they will work as batteries...