Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to raise the standard of college humor in the Big Three, The Lampoon, which once acquired the reputation of being Harvard's humorous magazine, will conduct a conference on Wednesday and Thursday, December 14 and 15, dedicated to "injecting new life into collegiate humor of the day." The Yale Record and the Princeton Tiger will he represented at the meet, and representatives of the so-called "funny magazines" of the other members of the Ivy League have also been invited...
Oddest fact about Beaverbrook as a publisher is the amount of kidding and criticism the Beaver can take from the people who work for him. Evelyn Waugh. a writer of fantastic novels (Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust) was once an Evening Standard reporter. He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess...
After ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was made an Earl last year, a writer on Beaverbrook's Evening Standard casually summed up the long-standing political feud between the two men, concluding: ''Did Beaverbrook get anything from it? Yes. He got an attack of asthma. He has it still. He is no longer a political force...
...medical problem. Baldwin can leave him to his doctors." David Low, the greatest cartoonist of the time, amuses himself with periodic laughs at Beaverbrook's expense in the Evening Standard. A sample is Low's picture of Beaverbrook at Christmas time, the press lord a tiny figure mailed like Richard the Lion-Hearted, catechizing Santa Claus for failing to bring enough Empire-made toys down his chimney...
...Manhattan's best-known buildings is the neo-Gothic tower of funereal black brick, topped by a gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good...