Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. stands six feet three in his stocking feet but prefers to measure his stature by inches of newsprint. Last week, by his own standard, he grew wonderfully tall...
...shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...view," pointed out that the story gave the number and location of more than one gun, which constituted the publication of an official secret. This was just what the Express needed for a good story of its own. Next day the London papers picked it up. Headlined the Evening Standard: WAR OFFICE BUYS COPY OF THE HAREWOOD NEWS. Below were pictures of the publishers...
This time Harry Sinclair's leadership was followed. Standard of New Jersey's marketing subsidiary, Humble Oil & Refining Co., cut its posted prices 5? to 32?. Cities Service and Bell Oil & Gas cut 20?, like Sinclair. Standard of Indiana was expected to follow...
Gaunt-faced, peppery Clarence Budington Kelland is a leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...