Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assumption. "When the present military buildup was begun, after the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950, the strategic assumption . . . was that Soviet action on a world scale was imminent . . . Soviet scientists had successfully tested an atomic device ... In the face of this and other developments. American military planners marked the year 1954 as a date of acute danger...
Early in the strike, the Photo-Engravers' Union, which has a minimum scale of $120 to $131 weekly, had cut its demand for a $15-a-week raise to $7.50, v. the $3.75 offered by the publishers. But even though the union's international president wanted to arbitrate the difference, the New York City local's President Denis Burke led the membership in a thumping 287-47 vote against arbitration. The other unions, committed to full cooperation, went along with the engravers' decision...
...profits are also helped by Sweden's fast tax-amortization laws. From the day the contract was let for the $10 million ship, SAL could start writing off 20% of her cost. Furthermore, Swedish shipping unions demand less than half the American scale, though the country's sailors are still the highest-paid in Europe. They also get outside double rooms and their own swimming pool on cruises...
...Which Fielding followed up in 1742 with a full-scale parody, the second English novel, Joseph Andrews...
Junior oral examinations can provide a convenient scale to measure the worth of a year's tutorial. Because the student's own tutor would head the board of examiners, all questions asked during the orals would be related to the year's work. Concentrators could still pick their own field for junior tutorial and the questions would be framed around this choice...