Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken off all my committees, but I didn't whine about it. I told Nick Longworth that if he wouldn't let me attend his caucuses I wouldn't let him attend mine, and I'd hold mine in a telephone booth. " His standard crack whenever Presidential 1940 was mentioned: "I couldn't even rate a gallery seat in either party convention...
...help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner, five standard Pullmans. It's an Act of God. It won't help you to call the Governor...
Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived...
...Link started his measurement of public taste and opinion as a service to sell to advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending...
...want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time rate, but asked the stations to pay the wire charges for carrying the programs between the two cities. The deal was made and on the basis of these two-station broadcasts MBS was formed in September of that year. WOR and WGN organized on a 50-50 basis, agreed to seek...