Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is a sort of scorecard by which to tell the players. Political Behavior is a rulebook telling, for the benefit of a people whose political illusions are many, the rules by which the Great Game is played on a national scale...
...colors seemed natural. But the pictures, shown large, flickered. Positives can be printed in any numbers from the original film, an advantage commercially. Entrepreneurs at once offered Mr. O'Grady a million dollars for his invention. He refused it. He has his own company going-on a small scale, last week...
...learned, no chance of ratification by the present French Parliament. Mr. Mellon continued to rest. For his part, M. Poincaré hoped that the U. S. would wait patiently, in view of the fact that France has not waited for ratification to begin paying her debt on the scale fixed by the Mellon-Berenger agreement. M. Poincaré's worry was this: that the U. S. would insist upon collecting the $400,000,000 War stocks debt, due this month, which will be refunded with the rest of France's debt to the U. S. as soon...
...wage-agreement upon which the district leaders, especially those from Illinois, who called the Policy Committee's meeting, wanted local autonomy, was the bitterly disputed scale established four years ago at Jacksonville, Fla.-$7.50 per day or $1.08 per ton (for tonnage workers...
...Significance. Such is the array of Pirandello's characters-the old clinging foolishly to the dead Bourbon issue, the young fasci passionately avowing an unborn issue, and the middle aged fattening themselves on a fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins...