Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged a complete reorganization of the Graduate Schools in this country so as to raise the standard of work in the Graduate Schools as the Law and Medical schools have done in the past twenty-five years...
...American Women's Club, London. Purpose of the society: to give performances and promote the study of the music preserved to posterity in Franz Schubert's writing desk. For, although much of this music is available in popular editions, and all of it is printed in the standard editions of Schubert's Works, the great bulk of it is seldom or never performed except in Schubert's birthplace, Vienna...
...literate instead of literal. "The newspapers," said he, "are doing an excellent job in informing the public of the latest scientific happenings. My quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled...
Depression hit Benson & Rixon for only a moment; in 1933 the annual gross was again $2,000,000 and President Benson's enthusiasm was still aggressive and undampened. Now he is booming a new experiment, the three-pants suit. This consists of the standard two-pants article plus an odd pair of different pattern. Benson & Rixon buys the odd pants separately, sells them at cost (a $26 two-pants suit sells for only $29.50 as a three-pants suit). By last week the chain had sold 2,900 three-pants suits in three weeks. Said beaming 55-year...
Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...