Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left, balanced by the English version at the right. They are not all new translations. Some are themselves classics, as, for example, Apuleius' Golden Ass in the version which William Adlington made in 1566. No uniform edition of the classics has ever before been attempted on such a scale. The annual loss, a large one, is borne by Mr. Loeb. He, when he had retired from active business to devote himself to literary and archaeological studies, translated two classic dramas from the French...
...remaining 32 years of his life he amassed a fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern...
Louie the 14th. Leon Errol's legs straddle this musical comedy like those of the Colossus at Rhodes. Florenz Ziegfeld's latest musical pageant and village carnival has been produced on a scale of towering magnificence. It outshines a Mardi Gras festival and the Follies combined. But unless the book had Mr. Errol's legs to uphold it, it could hardly stand on its own feet...
...series of state colleges would undoubtedly set in motion a series of unique social and educational reactions. For one thing, it is certain that the more prosperous classes would continue to send their sons and daughters to the privately endowed colleges, while the less favored sections in the economic scale would gravitate toward the less expensive schools. A traditional separation might arise between wealth and poverty; and the gap, at present passed with not too great difficulty, might be widened into a gulf...
...would be so coached, with free graduate aid at the tight places, today if it had not happened that the rivalry that began some two decades ago on a large scale, due to the rise of football in the smaller institutions, brought in the paid graduate or the professional coach...