Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the 1928 June graduation about to wreak havoc in the ranks of Harvard's sturdy baseball standard bearers of the last three seasons, along comes one of the most powerful Yardling nines in years to lighten the toll of graduation wreckage. Thirteen wins in fifteen starts is their record...
...protesting members cited. This, however, does not alter the fact that a protest requesting "strict observance of the merit system; in other words, on the basis of outside activities" does not contribute one constructive idea towards the solution of the problem. It is merely the expression of an admission standard already so often expressed it has become hackneyed...
...benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...
...spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention in behalf of investments is either acceptable or unnecessary; and it would be highly unfortunate if short-sighted...
...nude show, promptly signed contracts for others. When Sally Rand kicked, he sicked police on her, forced her girls to don brassieres. Last week no successor was appointed. Actual runners of the show from now on will probably be two members of the board of management, Philip Patchin (Standard Oil of California) and James Byers Black (Pacific Gas & Electric), whose companies are the Fair's chief creditors...