Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent that college undergraduates can be consider representative of the entire country, the recent Student Opinion Surveys indicate that the American political scene of the future will be altered. These polls imply that at least two of the foremost standard political arguments of the nation--the Communist bogey and isolation--will not be very effective ammunition for the politician of tomorrow...
...rowing and track championships will not be decided until after the middle of May. May 27 is the big day on the spring calendar, because on that day the Harvard hardball winners journey to New Haven to tackle Yale's representative, and the Elis send their tennis and crew standard bearers to Cambridge...
...stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...
...broaden the monetary base, the U. S. Treasury has spent nearly $1,000,000,000 buying silver at the pegged prices (now 64? an ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been established...
Harvard's standard-bearer admits that he would welcome an opportunity to test the prowess of the numerous pretenders to his crown who have sprung up since his epic feat on March 26. "I really doubt whether all of them have been following the rules of the IGGA (Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association)," Clark said. The record has kept on soaring sky-high, as many a lad has made his fame and fortune. At present Joseph Deliberate is accredited (unofficially) with bringing the title to Clark University by downing $9, eclipsing Gordon Southworth's 67 for Middlesex College...