Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...European libraries also rather partake of the nature of museums. The old manuscripts, century-old relics, are put on exhibition, like your Treasure Room on a large scale. The illustrations in these manuscripts are often valuable as works of art, aside from the literary merit of the works. We have a collection of about 200,000 medals, many of them famous historically. Our periodical department is quite extensive, and we have several newspaper reading rooms. One of these is intended principally for Americans...
...company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
...Trail of '98. Here is a good old-fashioned thriller on a glorified scale. It is in Alaska's snowy Klondike where men are after gold, gold, GOLD! The villain, of course, is named Jack Locasto (Harry Carey). He has plenty of gold and a whiskey passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches...
...trying to represent the pattern or the temperament of response to conditions of different people. They believe that if these experiments are conducted long enough by people and on a wide enough scale if will be possible to find out facts concerning the human body which will have an effect athletically, industrially, and economically. It will be possible to find out what is wrong with people, what jobs they are fit for why they are not successful in other jobs, and to what diseases they are subject...
...external conditions such as temperature, ventilation, and hours of labor. There is also a limit to the adaptability of the body, and the determination of its most productive field is of obvious value. While it is doubtful that the human mechanism can ever be calibrated on any uniform scale, the general principles of determining the activity for which each is best suited can add much to both the productivity and well-being of workers in every field. Few investigations have as much potential power toward bettering mankind as those which will aid in determining these principles...