Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a premium on speed, immediate Rightist objective last week was to capture by surprise the gigantic hydroelectric Tremp station, before the Leftists should make again their standard move of dynamiting a big dam rather than let it be captured. In a panting, breathless five-mile drive, Rightists under General José Moscardó got possession of Tremp in time's nick, for otherwise the flood of water released would have swept away whole villages, drowned thousands in 247,000,000 cubic feet of water...
...city," and no authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow was the fact that Poliakoff served...
Crimson trackmen get an early-season last today when they compete under handicaps in the University Handicap Meet at the Stadium. Weightmen contested their events yesterday afternoon, while 11 standard running and field events will be run off this afternoon. The pole vault, high jump, and broad jump start off the program at 2 o'clock...
Henry Morrison Flagler, son of an impoverished Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, organized Standard Oil Co., left John D. Rockefeller to run it and retired to Florida in 1883 with ever mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives...