Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubmate. The B. Jones who reached the semi-final was Benjamin, of Druid Hills Club, Atlanta, and not chubby Robert Tyler Jones Jr., North Georgia's super-golfer. The latter, together with able Perry Adair of Atlanta, busies himself with his bond-selling between tournaments of national scope...
...single restaurant. Today the company operates 106 restaurants throughout the U. S. and Canada; and does a cash business of approximately $25,000,000 annually. A majority of Childs restaurants are located in New York City, where they have even invaded Fifth Avenue in several places; yet the national scope of the business is indicated by locations in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta, New Orleans, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg. As a matter of fact, the Childs Co. resembles Schulte and other chain store companies in deriving much of its profits from real estate operations...
...other delegates were quite as pleased. They had gone to Geneva a hopeful band of enthusiastic idealists. At Geneva, they found it indispensable to pose as disillusioned realists. After Geneva, they were again idealists giving scope to their dream-a warless world. How far they had reconciled idealism with realism was a story told by the convention...
LORD DESBOROUGH, replying for the Home Secretary: "The bill clearly defined the word "animal' as including birds, reptiles and fish. I regret that fleas do not come within the scope of the bill...
...Swifter to change than the customs is the scope of U. S. Education. In 1900, about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...