Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entangled in the maze of invitations, debutantes and dates, that they found themselves confronted at the beginning of Commencement Week by three girls apiece--each expecting to be feted as "the only one". Truly terrible is the result of a blind plunge into the mass, but the sliding scale of prices forms a nether millstone from which there is no escape. By means of innumerable notices telling him what to do and how to do it, and almost innumerable lightenings of the family exchequer, the Senior is being gently pushed to the brink...
Expanding the transit system in this manner, of course, does not mean that there should be street railway lines in every street. But it does mean that a new lattice-like transit system should be superimposed upon all of the old and new street systems on an enlarged scale. Instead of through every street, the railway tracks should be located a number of streets apart in each direction, depending upon the character of the transit being considered...
...expedition is to visit South America, Africa, Australia, Japan and thence home through the Mediterranean until finally, after four months spent in about thirty-five different ports, it returns to England supposedly laden with orders and business opportunities. In short, it is an attempt on a grand scale to build up the fallen fortunes of British manufacturing, and so the first step toward an England industrially active and financially solvent...
...even with the allowances for varying capacity, varying ambitions, and the varied demands of different extra-curriculum affairs, such a plan seems dangerous in many ways. There are activities which no scale of points can take into consideration, dances, or the positions necessary for those working their way through, either of which may end disastrously for the careless, although to curb either would be absurd. The amount a man undertakes in college is dependent wholly upon himself. No one else is competent to judge his capacity; and while his own estimate may be wrong the experience gained by success...
...action; yet in it the whole exposition is stealthily unfolded at the same time that the atmosphere of terror is being created. Beginning with the emperor's nocturnal fight, author and actor carry us through three scenes of steadily increasing intensity, each a step downward in the scale of the negro's character, and each culminating in a nerve-wracking climax...