Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigger Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments...
...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...
Bulldog defensive play, however, does not match the Elis' offensive standard. Fullbacks Phil Meyer and Mal Black are big but slow, and alternating goalies Charlie Grigg and Andy Block have shown a tendency to wilt under pressure. The Elis use a three-back defense, with the center half functioning as a third fullback, to bolster their protection...
Martin emphasized that the Commission "does not want to impose a standard college preparatory curriculum on the U.S. high school...
...however, the situation is so critical, and solution seems so remote that almost any experiment seems justified. Wald has created a course which reflects his personal philosophy, and it is likely that it will succeed through his teaching ability. But the course must be measured against a more objective standard--it is the crucial test of whether General Education in the sciences can be made meaningful for the nonscientist as well as scientist...