Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the last directors' meeting, in Grand Rapids, the scales tipped against Sewell Avery. By a 5-to-4 vote, directors jacked up the dividend rate and ousted the fuming octogenarian. The man who lined up the opposition and became the new president: W. R. Murphy, 30, son of...
The photography is first-class in a murkily introspective way, and the ballerina (Sybil Werden), the druggist (O. W. Fischer) and his wife (Heidemarie Hatheyer) are steadily excellent. There is some quiet kidding of second-string ballet companies, and a thrilling, light-splashed rush through the country in a carriage...
On the Scales. Wishing neither to underestimate the enemy nor to misunderstand him, newspapers printed only the truth they could be sure of about him. and were driven to guessing the dimensions of the bear by the length of his claw, and his health by the color of his coat...
This too is part of the reality that belongs on the scales at Geneva.
The answer has turned out since to be middle-of-the-road Republican. An authority on labor law, he has written carefully worded texts on the subject, including a 1,593-page, $40 two-volume treatise on workmen's compensation, which he weighed in on the bathroom scales at...