Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the recent National Intercollegiate wrestling bouts, the various coaches assembled and passed a recommendation that the point-system of judging matches be adopted as our national standard. The present scoring method, with its lack of definite standards for decisions, can be discarded if the National Wrestling Rules Committee adopts this new point-system, which has enjoyed unqualified success in the Big Ten conference...
...purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered, for Germans, in general, far from expecting the Czechs to cost them money, hope to profit from them. Next best hope is that other countries will relax and open their markets again to Czech goods...
...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...
...room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...
...weakness, no less safety. Most of the weight was saved in the engine and frame assembly, little taken from the body, in order to avoid the charge of being "tinny." Design is conservative-little chromium, headlights in fenders, no running boards. It has gearshift on the steering post, many standard Studebaker features such as hill-holder, rotary door locks, expensive shock absorbers. And it gets some 20 miles to a gallon...