Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Pageantry, as a form of popular education and edification, has steadily risen in favor with educators, civic reformers, artists, and the populace of the United States during the last decade and a half. Yale University, this autumn, is to produce, on a larger scale than any of her rivals have yet attempted, what will very likely prove to be the most imposing academic pageant to date; and this, be it noted, by a conservative institution, only recently awakened to aesthetics' rightful place. Even more significant of the change that has come is the ecclesiastical pageant soon to be shown...
...more intensely interesting region than Picardy for the three months before the present offensive could scarcely be found. For that entire period we saw day by day, step by step, the preparations made on a greater scale than ever before. Our headquarters were some 20 miles from Amiens, on the national highway leading to Peronne, directly behind the sector of lines where the French troops have brought the heaviest pressure to bear...
...scheme is based on the fact that any chemical process on whatever scale it may be conducted may be resolved into a series of what may be termed unit actions, such as pulverizing, heating, roasting, condensing, precipitating, crystallizing, filtering, dissolving, electrolyzing, and so on. The number of these basic unit operations is not very large. The student who understands all these unit actions is in a position to attack any chemical problem...
...informed that he would receive no further support from the state because he had antagonized the farmers by revealing the true worth of oleomargarine, a substitute for butter. In 1892 politicians in charge of a statistical bureau manipulated figures so that a completely false impression was given of the scale of wages for a specified period...
Increasingly American business life is pervades by the professional spirit. It has grown in response to pressure from within and to a quickened social sense from without. It was large-scale business, complex and with many public contacts, that has first felt these forces, and therefore has sought systematically to enlist broadly trained men. The smaller concerns are now falling into line. Business leaders began looking for young men who could use their minds, who could analyze problems and take a fresh point of view. They found that college graduates were likely to have the qualities they sought, activity...