Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political orator. He waged battle for causes. He fought duels. Now he is publisher, journalist, novelist. His publishing firm has published in the form of cheap little paper books practically all of the world's masterpieces for the benefit of the Spanish people. Publishing on a grand scale-yes!-for Ibanez is just that -grandiose. Life for him, I fancy, is a brilliant gesture...
American universities have all too frequently been likened to grist-mills, grinding out a mediocre product of intelligentia. Certainly the ideal university is not merely a large-scale vendor of knowledge, and it is perhaps with apprehension of this tendency in American education that President Butler of Columbia has taken the occasion of the inaugural exercises at Washington University to define the mission of the modern University. As important as the task of advancing learning, he believes, is that of offering a "reconciliation of the conflicting movements of nationalism and internationalism...
...commonly thought of by Americans, scarcely exist, and what there is of them is centered in Manila. There we have factories for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, for the refining of a portion of our raw sugar, and for the manufacture of hemp into cloth. But large scale industry is little known there. The development of the country has not reached that stage which requires...
...Goodyear's acquisition of the patents is to be found partly in the unprofitable character of the tire business at present, and partly because the American Company, as the nation's largest manufacturer of mechanical rubber goods, can undertake this branch of manufacturing on a large scale with existing equipment...
...costs consist largely of salary to musicians. The new union schedule has added $22,248 to the Philharmonic payroll. The scale is a complicated affair with different rates for concert, opera and ordinary theatres, with different rates also for in-town and out-of-town playing, with heavy charges for overtime in the way of rehearsals...