Word: scales
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Military training in the majority of cases is being continued although on a reduced scale. The study of German apparently has fallen off greatly but in most instances this is regarded as merely a temporary lapse. There have been some changes in the curricula but none that can be called radical...
Other examples of color and its value in design are furnished by copies of textiles, mostly by students of Dr. Ross. Finally these theories are carried into the field of representative painting in which Dr. Ross used his color scale and palette entirely. Most of the canvasses are small sketches but some are larger and more finished pictures...
...aviation outside of colleges Mr. Cabot replied: "In order to provide a field for aviators in peace time we must develop our commercial aviation. More extensive aerial mail routes and privately owned fast freight lines operated under government subsidy offer great possibilities. This is being done on a large scale on the Continent and there is no reason why we should let them get ahead of us. If we are to have control of the air we must have machines built in this country, and machines will not be manufactured unless there is a demand for them in commercial fields...
...suggestion to teach aeronautical theory in our universities is strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department...
...three are pernicious. The first of these, government ownership, is a very dangerous principle in a democracy like the United States. Sooner or later the railroads would become the pawns of the political parties, both working for their control. The spoils system on a new and greater scale would be rejuvenated. Moreover, under this plan, the employees of the railroads would have effective control over the hours they work and over the pay they would receive for that work. And the government would pay the bill. One can be reasonably sure that the Brotherhoods would be generous to themselves...