Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They had expected that Washington would cripple Djakarta by freezing all Indonesian funds in the U.S. until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been too confident that Sukarno's creaky government could...
...personality that neither make-believe limbo nor enduring flesh can destroy, a historic character of TV folklore uncomfortably survived by himself. Hodge has tried in vain to get dramatic parts and commercial assignments. No director will hire him, arguing that every TV viewer instantly identifies him as the captain. (Standard greeting: "Hello there, Video, what can we do for you?") His only big TV job since 1955 was a commercial in which he was a dentist boosting Dentyne chewing gum-and the kids doubtless wondered what Captain Video was doing in a white smock...
...industry already has invested in monaural LPs. There were two possible ways. One was to develop a cartridge and stylus that would play both straight monaural records and stereo records. The other way-Columbia's-was to develop a stereo record that would sound good with the standard monaural pickup and could also be used when the owner got around to buying stereo sound gear...
...certainly cannot be charged against the Pudding that it has no standard of admission or that it is without influence in the college, but it may be fairly asserted that the standard is false and the influence deplorable. The Pudding seeks for "gentlemen", not in the sense of men of honor, nor in that of men of polished manners, but in that of men of large means and little brains, possessed with the singular delusion that they occupy a social position higher than the rest of mankind... a few men of ability are admitted on condition of repaying by uniform...
...constitution states one further purpose for the Society, that election to membership be a recognition of merit. One of the founders expressed his hope that people would be elected on the basis of real ability rather than because of "good fellowship," and that Signet would not adopt the false standard of admission originally criticized in other clubs...