Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affluent passerby who casts a handful of pennies into the street to watch the urchins scramble is doubtless being tasted on much larger scale by Edward W. Bok, who offered $100,000 for a practical plan for international peace in which the U. S. can participate (TIME, July 9). The deadline for submitting plans brought the contest to a close with 22,165 plans submitted. On the last day over 700 were presented to the Policy Committee of the American Peace Award...
...most interesting episode recently has been Secretary Mellon's proposal to scale down income taxes. Of all the cheerful news which has occurred, or been made to occur, this Fall, Mr. Mellon's adroit move has been the soundest, the most genuinely optimistic, and the most popular with the rank and file of businessmen...
...hear no good, see no good, speak no good. He recognizes no sense of happiness, no joy of living, save of an artificial and transient sort. Even his love between men and women never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes pains to depict as of the grossest sort. Inasmuch as he cannot see life as they...
...other race and time." With the statement one in part agrees, but certainly not on the point of political sagacity, at least. As for Galton's anthropological proof of this, it is a frankly arbitrary decision of private opinion, made so as to demonstrate the application of his intelligence scale to other peoples than the English...
...France is for ultimate security: of England for an immediate recovery of trade: of Germany for the preservation of her threatened existence. All three demands are of the utmost urgency. For meanwhile, pending their reconciliation, German children starve. France is reduced to arming herself on a pre war scale, and England staggers under debt, unemployment, and taxation. Worst of all, the hatreds are being fostered which make...