Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police grabbed Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...
...world's food supply has become only slightly more radioactive since 1945, and in most categories of comestibles there is no slightest threat to health. So reported Dr. Edwin P. Laug and Chemist Wendell C. Wallace of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last week. Standard of comparison was a collection of old canned foods, e.g., from Admiral Byrd's caches in Antarctica (TIME, March 11, 1957). As expected, because fallout tends to concentrate on grass and thus get into browsing cows, there was some increase in radioactivity of milk and milk products. While this was so slight...
...relatively wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings of huge corporate purses...