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Searched for scale in Diaries (138 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1914-12-01

    ... edition of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt debunks the myth of the uprightness of the English. The author points to the façade behind which are found only greed and disorder. It is thus astonishing how easily such large-scale deceptions can arise and gain a ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-05-01

    ... absolute dedication to her duties. On the one side the ego, on the other the cause and the general well-being: the scales must tip towards the side of the latter if life is to remain worth living. One merchant says about another, "Oh, he earns a lot" – an ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-29

    ... direction of St. Christoph; but we soon turn back, as we are uncertain about the weather. Back to work, for which the sky now takes on a good blue disposition once again. "Scale step" Stufe continued. At noon, under a cloudless sky, 22°. FromOC B/171 the ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-09-04

    ... conversation with the mother of the stationmistress, and so on. We also stand on the scale, which gives the thoroughly satisfying results of 67 and 88 kilograms, respectively. Nonetheless, the coolness of the evening forces us away; in order to keep moving, we ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-09-19

    ... 7 kilos of plums. Mrs. Wally fails to turn up, even after Fl. announces her coming for today. In the afternoon to the pharmacy, where I casually step onto the scales to read the oracle: 86 kilos! – so an increase!; after that to the Franz ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-05-04

    ... Bahr, only on a larger scale. I immediately noticed that in this form my judgment had no chance of being accessible to those present. The man of the house produced, as evidence of his favorable opinion, a letter addressed to him from Rolland, in which ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-11-11

    ... Registerwechsel gleichsam von Ton zu Ton, das Cembalo legt ein Register für lange Zeit fest. "das Cembalo legt ein Register für lange Zeit fest": the word “Zeit” here suggests not time but musical interval: one can imagine Schenker playing a scale on the ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-06-29

    ... , and certainly does not understand the error that his incompetence has brought about. If only the poet would come who was able to place the Emperor's guilt on the scale of destiny, and we would receive the mighty tragedy of a declining realm, a ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-05-02

    ... the very dubious honor of having gifted her hours of stimulation. If all that is sufficient to cry over or laugh about sufficiently, the scale tips towards the grotesque when one learns that the lady wants, in addition to all that, "a feast for the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-26

    ... . We weigh ourselves on a precision scale. When injustice requires force, then justice should also require force! What the former arrogates is an obligation for the latter. In this sense, force is to be fought with force. The respectable person should ...

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