Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swimmer Bill Kendall's National Intercollegiate record of 4 minutes 46.4 seconds for the 440 yard free-style in a 20-yard pool was accepted yesterday by the National Collegiate A. A. as an official performance. Kendall splashed his way to the new standard on February 23 of this year as the Varsity defeated Springfield...
What will Justice Roberts say when he Jays the proposed statute alongside of the appropriate article of the Constitution to see if the former squares with the latter? He may retreat from the glorious standard set in the AAA decision but we can confidently expect from Justice McReynolds a blistering restatement of his dissent in the Gold Clause cases: "As for the Constitution it is not too much to say that it is gone." And this will be a merited rebuke for the New York Herald Tribune...
...oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing expensive experimental planes, then all investing in a standard plane-first the DC-2, then the DC-3. The good idea: that U. S. airlines should use the collective knowledge of their engineers, pilots, technical and traffic advisers, eliminate competitive waste by financing a common plane...
...Congress once again appears willing to caper at the Administration's whistle. It could have chosen a much more propitious time than now when the Wage and Hours Bill is pending. From the sociological standpoint, the desire of this bill to aid those two million unfortunates working under sub-standard labor conditions is commendable. From the economic standpoint, it is a continuation of an unwise wage policy based on faulty economic reasoning which has been pursued by the last two administrations...
Latest British reviewer to burst into best-selling mothhood is Howard Spring of the London Evening Standard, whose "Book of the Month" choice is a lively competitor of the organized book clubs. With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike...