Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expert who, like Whitehead, has had a hand in the movement responsible for replacing auction bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need...
...system now in vogue at most colleges trains average people to do useful and honorable work along standard lines. But it does not encourage individuality. It helps and encourages students to follow the broad cement roads to quick and apparent forms of success, but it does not guide them along the side roads and bypaths which often lead to great and unexpected discoveries...
...empire within itself. It contains the only entirely separate markets in the United States. Prices on the Los Angeles and San Francisco Stock Exchanges- whose seats are now selling for approximately $150,000 each-are in no way dependent on New York Stock Exchange prices. Some stocks such as Standard Oil of California, Roister Radio, Pacific Gas & Electric, California Packing [Del Monte Brand products] are listed on both Pacific Coast and New York boards, and the prices sometimes vary east and west. Financial news printed in Eastern business newspapers reaches California too stale to be news. And Westerners certainly deserve...
...STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From an organ suggestively marked THIS ORGAN LUBRICATED BY STANDARD OIL came chords. A choir took up the chant: "Hallelujah, Rockefeller! Hallelujah, Henry Ford! Hosannah, Morgan...
...Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money...