Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substitution of a standard three-year term will eliminate the grave uncertainly of tenure under which annual instructors now suffer, and does not involve any marked departure from present practice since most annual instructors are now reappointed at least twice...
...standard three-year term for full-time instructors, many of whom now hold annual appointments, is urged, although one-year appointments are not precluded in "exceptional cases." In addition the committee sees a need for giving instructors an opportunity to branch out of tutorial work into lecturing and leading class discussions, with the end in view of aiding such men as cannot be "absorbed, into the University by promotion" to find positions elsewhere...
...Standard method for lubricating the bearings of big waterpower generators is to keep oil moving under forced circulation between the bearings and a cooling system which keeps the oil from overheating. The bearings of the Grand Coulee monsters will operate in a bath of oil containing its own cooling system in the form of immersed water pipes. Thus water will be pumped but no oil-cutting down piping and maintenance costs and reducing leakage hazards...
Because of the slovenly conduct of the trip; because of Stead's failure to find his position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...
...CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT-Erle Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). The "testimony" of a profane pet parrot figures in the coroner's hearing on the murder of an eccentric millionaire. Standard Perry Mason, slightly frayed at the edges...