Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 800 students turned out then in one of the biggest student demonstrations of the year to name him as their Republican standard bearer...
Manhattan's skyline, he wrote, consisted of "high skyscrapers and the glitter of electric advertising . . . intended to daze the unprepared visitor and muddle his ideas." Manhattan's culture provided "pseudoscientific pamphlets decorated with a standard cover: a painted man indecently kissing a woman." Even the kids were corrupt. "Steel handcuffs for small children," he reported, "attracted our attention in a toyshop...
...began to serve as an audience "plant." In line of duty, she has cut loose with her piercing, roof-shaking laugh in every major theater in the U.S. Only a frankly hostile audience could resist Mom's lead. Milton's stage response to her laughter has become standard: "Thank you, mother," and that is usually good for a laugh, too. Today, a vigorous woman of 71, Mom Berle took a bow on last week's TV show and did one of her specialties-a brief straight...
...Giorgio de Chirico (pronounced keerico) was a red-hot surrealist and an inspiration to other radicals of the easel like Salvador Dali. Most of his favorite themes-the melancholy shadows of late afternoon, the animated manikins, the colonnades and lonely figures in otherwise deserted squares-have since become standard surrealist props...
...many companies employers could lay the basis for lower prices by demanding and getting a higher standard of workmanship all around. Last week, a survey of 1,000 manufacturers by Mill & Factory magazine showed that 55% reported productivity on the upgrade...