Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, however, the basic reason for the founding of the Coop has disappeared. Harvard square merchants have fully realized that to cater to the student trade they must truly serve that clientele. Thus, prices have been reduced to standard levels, and the student is no longer penalized. In fact he stands to gain in two ways because of the foundation of the Coop...
...belittled the Negro's talents. Said Pastor's manager, James Joy Johnston: "It took Louis 21 rounds to knock out Pastor-ten in New York [1937] and eleven in Detroit." But the majority of fair-minded fans, aware that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked...
...Millman went to Mexico, spent his time with Diego Rivera learning mural design and technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small...
...relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford of Brookline, Mass. issued a set of standard directions on the everyday use of cobra venom...
...will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than 70% of capacity and finding no trouble getting workmen. In the propeller business Curtiss and Hamilton Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post war: how to make...