Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stroheim's. The former stormy petrol of Hollywood has in exile created a far greater characterization than ever he did before. His performance would seem to be the one great thing of "Grand Illusion." Although neither plot, treatment, direction, or his fellow actors maintain the superbly high standard that Von Stroheim sets, the picture is far above average...
...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...
...Explosion? Standard theory for the origin of the sun's cohort of planets is that the material which formed them was pulled from the sun by the tidal action of a passing star. Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory has worked out the dynamics of a new theory which he last week presented. He believes that the sun, like hundreds of "novae" (exploding stars) which astronomers have studied, lost its balance, figuratively speaking, some two or three billion years ago and blew up, hurling out planetary material before subsiding to its smaller and comparatively placid state...
...unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity is reckoned at from 8,000 to 10,000 Ibs., more than a Douglas DC-3 passenger transport. But a DC-3 costs $114,000. The Babb Special, which will be built...
...weak currencies of Britain and France, the homecoming of Ambassador Kennedy from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these rumors, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wearily gave his standard answer-that he did not."consider them important enough to begin denying...