Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special feature of this year's camps is that it is the first time when there will be tried, on a large scale, the plan recently adopted by the Government of having all the expenses of the men paid by the Government. The Army Appropriation bill of 1916 included an allowance to cover the expenses of maintaining the military training camps, including paying the expenses of individual men for their transportation to and from the camp nearest their homes, their subsistence in the camp, and uniforms...
...superior to the rest of us whom they control. All armament is purely relative, and we have no way of knowing yet how high the standard of armament will be set in the future. Each European country exhausted by the war, will be glad enough to reduce the scale,--providing only it can be sure al others will agree to do so. Organization against aggression will tremendously reduce the amount of armament required by each nation for protection; and every nation tells the world that it is arming for defense only...
...from friends of the University for the express purpose of increasing the salaries in the College. The application of this income resulted in an increase of about 13 per cent to all teachers in the College. Since that time there has been very little advance, practically the same scale of salaries being now in force...
...Reports from Western cities indicate a movement to introduce professional football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional...
...Spoladic reports last fall from Ohio--where commercialized football has taken deep root--gave hint of what might happen with the professional system flourishing on a large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams...