Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convenience of the Law School, or if not, that they should have been. The law students do not seem to realize that for years the varsity squash team has been pursuing its way around courts that have varied more than two feet in dimension, and their need for the standard courts at Hemenway outweighs the burden on law students of an occasional five minute walk. Exercise for law students is of the utmost importance, but if six courts were expressly reserved for them at Linden Street, in addition to the six remaining courts at the Hemenway Gym, the varsity invasion...
...grant those who would destroy freedom is an exceedingly important issue even in an America well-grounded in the democratic tradition. Even, so the committee could have done the nation a great service, and its failure brings acutely into focus the need for public insistence on a higher standard of morality in political circles...
...weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary, but a more careful tone of voice, for complete political freedom is an idyllic and troublesome standard for Harvard in a city which takes such a literal interpretation of a liberal educational creed as does Cambridge...
...Lesseps is about to start humming Marie, the Dawn Is Breaking. In the brief interval since he played the orchestra leader in Alexander's Ragtime Band, Tyrone Power has not had time to make major changes in his technique. Otherwise, his performance is well up to the standard of similar roles in Lloyd's of London and Marie Antoinette. In a supporting cast which includes Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce and Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone...
...dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched...