Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's 140,000 college seniors have jobs in sight. The U.S. occupation taught the Sun Tribers to scorn the way of their ancestors but did not replace it with a direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair cut like a mop and often dyed red; and over all, an attitude...
...first time striding along the campus of Princeton University or lunching with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds, the trustees of Princeton decided that...
...Mortician's Magazine discusses the problems of its tradesmen with time-tested aplomb. Softspoken, but firm, the magazine urges its members to live up to standard--warning its subscribers, for example, not to use summer fluids with winter creeping on. A long dissertation with much good advice is entitled "Embalming Dropsical Bodies" (we shan't bother to discuss it here...
...Council also approved a plan whereby students may buy season tickets for home games, although at the standard rate rather than a reduced price as was originally proposed. The purchase of such tickets automatically saves the buyer approximately 20 percent on single-ticket rates...
...forecast for 1960: $100 million annually. Furthermore, profits from piggybacking are often higher than those from regular freight. The flatcars used by the Pennsy travel better than 300 miles per day and average $40,000 revenue annually, v. only 45 miles and a $5,000 annual revenue from standard freight cars...