Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other leaders in his profession throughout the U. S. respect New York's safety measures and driving tests, which Commissioner Harnett has supervised although he never touches a steering wheel himself. Several States have copied the Harnett system of using two standard colors for license plates, reversing numerals and background each year...
...turned out later, this was more impishness. Lord Beaverbrook still closely supervises the Daily Express and its sister papers, the Sunday Express (1,500,000) and Evening Standard (400,000), although his office ranges halfway round the world...
...standard of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" but good entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...
Although the uranium atom was the most massive in the standard table of 92 elements, there was no theoretical reason why heavier elements should not exist...
...York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...