Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another tendency is to syndicate the press. The Rothmere syndicate in England controls over 60 percent of the daily papers. Over here Hearst and--on a smaller scale and slightly higher plane,--Munsey, are working along the same lines. As the papers become more powerful and centralized in control, they lose more than ever their individuality...
...that the army is about to test a new plane that carries enough bombs to demoralize a whole city; that the British air ministry is leaving nothing to chance in the perfection of the air defenses of London; and that the American navy is conducting manoeuvres on a grand scale.--All of which may be magnificent, but it is not peace...
...different parts of the country. Prudence has been in Manhattan for a little over a year. But she has been so great a success, that her department of the paper was enlarged and she was given full page advertising. The Prudence of Manhattan may be taken as a large scale type of all Prudences in describing this tremendous development of the personal touch in journalism...
...many readers the most curiously interesting chapter will be the first, in which we read the history of Holden Chapel. Here again a persistent Harvard trait is illustrated, the practical adaptation of material means to immediate ideal ends. Built on a generous scale for religious purposes within one generation, and during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor...
...field of contenders on a national scale for the Republican nomination in 1924 has narrowed to four-or rather, three and one-half. They are Calvin Coolidge, Hiram W. Johnson, William G. McAdoo and Oscar W. Underwood (half, because Mr. Underwood's activities are confined to the South...