Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they just ambled along the luminous boulevards grinning at one another, at Parisians, at Paris. Without the slightest hesitation, with thrown flowers, "Vive! Vive!" kisses and embraces, Paris grinned back. Unaware that any of their visitors would come so soon, the hosts made their welcome impressive by quiet, small-scale spontaneity...
...present era will be remarkable to future historians for its manifold expressions of an urge to unify human activities on a world-wide scale. This urge had taken clear form in men's minds by the opening of the 20th Century. Dreamers dreamed world Utopias. Statesmen fashioned a league and a court for the world's nations. In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted. Scientists planned to blanket the earth with radio power waves from common world generators. Men flew around the world, proposed a world language, spun world-wide business networks...
...success as a publisher is set his failure as a politician. Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap. He lacked the glad hand. He never was a mixer on a small scale or a large one. Accordingly the only weapon he had left was his brain, backed up by the power of newspapers. These proved insufficient...
...their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...
...Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways) Mr. Thompson said that Mr. Hoover was merely repeating previous flood-control methods on a somewhat larger scale and added that the natural desire to arrive as soon as possible at some plan of flood prevention was likely to result in the adoption of "half baked measures...