Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hahn estimated the force of his explosion at 200,000,000 volts. There was no audible or visible violence, for the reason that the total quantity of energy released was not enough to knock a fly off the wall. It was a terrific explosion on a microcosmic scale. Enormous voltages impressed on sub-atomic particles will accelerate them to enormous speeds, but they are so infinitesimally small that the quantity of energy is negligible by ordinary standards.* But in the atomic world a force of 200,000,000 volts has hitherto been recorded only in cosmic ray showers, never...
...park at all, Aquatic Park is essentially a glorified bathing place on a more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than in a yacht club at San Sebastian, Spain, where it was tried by Architects Labayen & Aizpurua in 1929. Architect William Mooser Jr. can thank his architect father for Aquatic Park's excessively ugly background: a chocolate factory designed...
...Frances Perkins' Public Contracts Board recommended hourly wage minima of 45? in the South, 62½? elsewhere. Independent companies kicked up a great row; U. S. Steel, already paying as much or more, was contentedly silent. Last week, Assistant Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin finally set the scale for the industry: 45? in 13 Southern States, 58½? in seven Midwestern States, 60? in eleven Western States, 62½? in the East...
...only writers but actors are concerned with B-S-H's system. Radio has no prescribed wage scale, although most big agency production units pay a basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week...
Buck contrasted the attitude of Booker T. Washington, great Negro leader of the nineteenth century with that of William Edward Du Bois '90. "Washington urged the Negroes to acquiesce to their place on the social and economic scale and to become good mechanics and farmers...