Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough to topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction in a strong "bull" market, as proved by subsequent events. In succeeding sessions of the stock exchange, prices steadied and in some cases shot upward to new high levels. The whole episode may be dismissed as signifying nothing in particular to U. S. business in general except, perhaps, that...
...Corinth. The J. P. Morgan-financed diggers at Corinth, having removed 5,000 tons of earth, beheld the first example known of large-scale Greek painting-a decoration upon the guard walls of an arena, showing gladiatorial combats lifesize, in color. A Targe Roman villa of the First Century A. D. yielded floor mosaics that are "without doubt the finest thing of the sort yet found in Greece," according to Dr. T. Leslie Shear of the American School of Classical Studies...
...corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants up the social and economic scale...
Significance. Here is art on a major scale. As characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...
...have asked, and I do not claim to be different from the rest. Nobody cares about the players having fun; it would be well for them to bear that in mind. What we want is that they play for our fun. Football is cock fighting on a grand scale. Whether the birds enjoy the sport they have not yet told us. For these reasons George Owen's point of view will not awaken a general interest beyond an academic...