Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of the examination are revealed to a student in the form of a graph on which his curve is plotted against that of the general average. The results in previous years have shown that a graduate's curve would reach its highest point on that part of the test covering his special field of concentration...
...ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show...
...theatre in general muddles through, but the Alexandria sinks into a coma. First it turns into a movie house (see cut) featuring Screeno night. Then it stoops to burlesque, complete with striptease. Then the police raid it, board it up, leave it grimy and forgotten. At the end the fabulous invalid is once more sitting up in bed: a band of young hopefuls, led by someone who might be Orson Welles, sweep out the dust and start rehearsing...
Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir and X-ray Expert William David Coolidge of General Electric Co. received $16.000 and $21,500 respectively. General Motors' celebrated Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettering, acknowledged father of the automobile self-starter, did not figure in the investigation because he, curiously enough, has received no star for distinguished research...
...general feeling of the Administration that the recent European crises have a definite U. S. analogy: that the parallel of sabre-rattling and mobilizing in Europe (artificial creation of a crisis) is to be found in the U. S. in extravagant misrepresentations of Government policies, in bogies set up before the eyes of industry and business. Among such bogies: that the Government plans little TVAs all over the U. S., that private utilities cannot raise money publicly for expansion, that the Federal tax burden is far higher than two, three or five years...