Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey, Governor Alfred Driscoll backed a new statewide minimum the same as New York's. Newark voted its teachers $600 raises, set up a scale whose minimums and maximums ($2,600 to $5,400) are higher than New York City...
...Norwalk, Conn., scene of the first of the recent U.S. teachers' strikes (TIME, Sept. 16), teachers got good news. A committee of three outside educators handed in a 33-page report recommending a drastically increased pay scale, beginning at $2,400. The "Norwalk Plan" also urged a new top classification of "artist" or master teacher. Pay for an artist teacher: $6,000 "and more...
Because of the reduced numbers of returning servicemen, the Veterans Office will undertake a streamlined scale of operations after Munro moves up from his present post of assistant counselor to direction of the bureau on July...
Although the growth of the college would have scaled the doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room...
...setting of the novel is Moscow under the deep snow and deeper temperatures of midwinter, a setting that Blunden etches in many black-&-white details. The crowded misery of the people, their toughness, the splendor of the theater, which Ferguson calls "the opium of the people," a wide scale of Moscow types from factory worker to Red Army marshal, are rendered with fidelity and perception. The book's unifying theme is fear-the fear in which all these people live...