Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park the servants* we brought from Washington suffered from a jinx which followed its course in three mishaps! My mother-in-law's serving table in the dining room has a center standard. Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over. No one could think for a minute because of the noise of breaking china...
...supreme on the docks, has some seagoing personnel, but A. F. of L. has most of the sailors and the teamsters who haul to & from the waterfronts. C. I. O.'s eastern National Maritime Union last week took a grave setback when it gave up its strike against Standard Oil of New Jersey and four other tanker companies, leaving disgruntled Gulf Coast sailors likely meat for A. F. of L. or independent union organizers...
...written. But no trace of lamentation shows in the tone of the book. We live, says Freud imperturbably, in remarkable times. For a long period it seemed that progress had made an alliance with barbarism, as in Russia, where a great attempt to lift the people to a higher standard of life was coupled with a ruthless suppression of free speech and thought. But in Germany this unnatural marriage has been dissolved, and barbarism proceeds alone...
...critics who have learned their lesson this time paid Adam respect. "A piece of giant brutality, rugged power and exultant energy," said the Star. "A figure more powerful than the most powerful animal, indeed, a being that is king of all creation," said the Evening Standard. Said bushy-haired Sculptor Epstein, king of the Primitive movement in sculpture (whose authentic impulse none may question, whose enduring value time will tell): "I saw Adam as the questing, mysterious primitive man. I saw him as the fount of all mankind...
...week they bid up Barren's index of retailing chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime steel, auto, chemical stocks bobbed indecisively up & down...