Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard has the highest pay scale in the entire Ivy League, perhaps even in the nation. For example, unskilled laborers receive $1.35 per hour plus certain free meals here; at Columbia, the comparable hourly rate in $1.05. In addition, the Harvard pay scale is based upon a 40-hour week, while Yale, which pays the second-highest wages among these schools, goes on the basis of a 48-hour week...
...Dining Hall Department cannot change the hourly pay rates, Tucker pointed out, since the union contract establishing the scale is decided by the Bureau of Personnel for the entire University. Tucker's administration must accept this rate, and consequently a new wage contract often causes a rise in board fees...
...Antaeus, and five other drawings from Windsor Castle), the show included 88 of the world's greatest. No one living could be sure which among them had the greatest claim to immortality. But the Altdorfer, Watteau and Goya drawings on the next four pages (all reproduced exactly full scale) would certainly be strong candidates...
Areas to be studied are Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...
There is a crack in the Liberty Bell, a few chips off the Washington Monument, the fountain of youth is but a myth, and, yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. Still, they try to reach perfection; after all, Edmund Hillary could scale Mt. Everest, and who knows, Mt. Olympus might be next. In Cambridge the Fuller Construction Company built Quincy House...