Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great stress will center on the simple impossibility of a large-scale drive for funds in competition with the Lamont Library. Any utilitarian project of SAC's scope surely requires financial backing over the million-dollar mark. First things first: let us decide what we want and then let us worry about getting it. After the first World War ten years elapsed before the erection of Memorial Chapel. Who will not gladly wait two years or more now to see something transcending a monument or a set of bells...
This will entail securing pencils and all the everyday paraphernalia which somehow isn't known today overseas. Like Salzburg, such a capsule-scale project serves as "an example, to show what is possible, so that other can follow up in helping to get European education back on its feet again...
...Student Council is today mobilizing agents from every entry in the College for a full-scale onslaught on undergraduates' pocketbooks in an attempt to raise $25,000 for charity, scholarships, College activities, and Council expenses. Opening gun will be fired tonight...
...strike was not over pay. The airline and union had already agreed to a new scale (a minimum guarantee of $939 a month for first-year DC-4 captains, up to $1,308 for Constellation senior captains). American termed the scale "the highest in the history of international commercial transport flying." David L. Behncke, the hard-bargaining president of the A.L.P.A., said the strike was caused by a last-minute demand of the airline. A.O.A. would agree to sign the contract, said Behncke, only if the union waived pilot grievances...
...sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...