Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daughaday found it hard to click in the consolation that followed immediately against the powerful Cornell into. The other point of the meet was won by Dick Thomas in a pin over Bond, capitals of the Pennsylvania team. He was later eliminated by Penn State's Scale in a consolation bent...
...here, boys; come and see it. You will see four hours of superb acting, excellent scenes in technicolor, a wonderful story. But you will not see a great picture. GWTW has been produced on a monumental scale using the best of everything Hollywood has to offer, but the story is not big enough to make the picture go down in film history. Not that it necessarily should, of course, but there has been so much ballyhoo about this being motion pictures' greatest triumph. It is not. Rather it is the best in entertainment...
...troubled times, when rationalized large scale military invasions have led the public to doubt the efficacy of our idealized system of ethics and absolute values, such as justice and truth, it is not surprising to find people passing by these very same beacons of life as mirages, because empirically they have not worked. It is a pleasant surprise to find Professor Sorokin, with critical ideas far broader than anything based on empirical data, asserting himself with conviction. It is a relief to find him concluding from his refocused point of view that absolute values are as real as anything else...
...surrounded him with partners whose brilliance obscured everything but the Morgan name. Stotesbury, Stettinius, Cochran, Lament, Morrow, Davison-such men made the term "Morgan partner" a semi-mythical synonym not only for (at one time) $1,000,000 a year, but for financial diplomacy on an international scale. When War came, it was Partners Henry P. Davison and Dwight W. Morrow who led the House of Morgan into its second great era. Early embracing the English cause, by 1918 the House had underwritten $1,400,000,000 in Allied loans, had netted some $4 millions as purchasing agent...
...like business in general) rose. In 1938, the Eastern roads got 18 months' relief from the 2? rate, went to 2½? for an experiment. Passenger revenues (like business in general) fell. To complicate the experiment, the roads interrupted it with lower World's Fair rates, sliding scale round-trip fares, etc. Result: at the end of the 18 months their experience with rates and revenues could be used to prove anything, but could prove nothing conclusively...