Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...includes asking all those who view the statues to cast a ballot for the one thought to be the best. The twelve frontiers-women will now tour the U. S., votes being taken everywhere on their value as art. The final winner will be reproduced on an heroic size scale and erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City in Oklahoma at a cost...
...recognized as seriously at Cambridge as it seems to be at New Haven, but the small college plan discussed last year is an indication that the question of unwieldy size is not to be disregarded. There are few people today who would deny that the advantages of large scale production are somewhat dubious in the economics of education...
...stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first...
...perfect combination. The Hon. Mr. Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which...
...appearance the Orangeman was short and round-shouldered, with a red fringe of whiskers around his face. He was known for his vocal efforts, particularly Erin-go-Bragh, which he rendered in a peculiarly individual manner, his range being limited to a scale of four or five notes...