Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents to take temporary jobs in industry...
...late has been the University's policy on admissions, and President Conant's simple statement that "college would be a dreary place if it were composed of only one type of individual" has been ignored for quotations easier to distort. In brief the policy boils down to a sliding scale of personality and brains, with more being demanded of the one as the quality of the other declines. Thus the genius can come to Harvard however repulsive he is, the moron only when his charm is truly dazzling. A more democratic policy would be difficult to find, and until...
...Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation is, 'I believe...
Harvard has innovated a plan looking to a greater assurance of higher educational opportunity for scholarship students. The plan is founded on the simple premise that the "stipend be adjusted to the financial needs of the individual." To this end a "sliding scale" based on past experience and a few pertinent economic facts has been adopted...
...have as the object of their attack the Communists at Harvard, but rather the existence of all that is liberal in the life and traditions of our university. We best understand the events of the past week if we realize that they are paralleled on a national scale by the reactionary attacks on the C.I.O. and the New Deal administration. It is also important to note that the bombing of women and children in Barcelona and Canton today is being carried on under the same guise of fighting Communism...