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Word: standardize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abrupt departure from the Cabinet was his insistence that government expenditures must be maintained at exactly the same level as last year's. But in the new estimates, expenditures came out almost ?50 million ($140,000,000) higher. This was not because of new extravagances but because standard welfare-state services would cost more. To cut the last ?50 million would mean cutting into such programs as free milk for children and expectant mothers, reducing the family allowances that pay parents $1.12 a week for their second child, $1.40 for each subsequent child. To cut such payments, argued Thorneycroft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Percent Difference | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Peyton Place | 1/15/1958 | See Source »

These changes have primarily affected the Division's five-year B.S. program, instituted in 1955. Under this plan, a student can take a fifth year to finish the preparation needed for a professional engineering license. Because of standard undergraduate requirements, an engineering student cannot acquire this preparation in four years...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Engineering Programs Recover Accreditation | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

HIGH DIVIDENDS are in sight for 1958, will probably match last year's record, predicts Standard & Poor's. For the year, it expects a "moderate" drop in after-tax profits from the $20.5 billion estimated for 1957. But S. & P. also figures that many U.S. companies will now be able to give a bigger share of their profits to stockholders because they will have less inventory and expansion costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Next year a certain number of specially qualified students will learn of their admission to Radcliffe prior to the standard notification date in May, Miss Constance E. Ballou, Dean of Admissions, says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Adopts Staggered Plan For Admissions | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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