Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope," the Vice-President told a full-house audience of 1,800 in the Colorado Springs, Colo. High School auditorium, "is to double everyone's standard of living in ten years . . . We see the time not too far distant when we can have a four-day work week and family life will be even more fully enjoyed by every American . . . These are not dreams or idle boasts-they are simple projections of the gains we have made in the last four years...
...This story jibes essentially with the earliest and standard account of Mohammed's life (by Ibn Ishaq-8th century), but the tone of the book's 16-page biography might well give offense to devout Moslems...
...text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard of his spirituality. Intercourse with him is to be determined by the purity of his deeds, and consort with him by the degree of his intelligence. This alone is to determine the degree to which a man is to be loved or hated...
Never before had Question permitted such a heavily advertised star on the premises. Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill is 45, greying, a choleric soldier of fortune, ladies' club lecturer, sometime correspondent for the London Evening Standard and only son of Sir Winston. "And now," said Hal March, "the time has come to play the game." Big Game-Player Churchill picked his favorite category: No. 6-the English language...
...other side of the coin, private expenditure, came to an overwhelming $236 billion, which the GOP loudly hearalds as an indication that Rich America is growing richer and the standard of living is skyrocketing. The private debt for 1954, unfortunately, soared to its highest point in history. The non-farm debt reached an all-time peak, and the farm debt exceeded any since the bleak days of 1932. Naturally, the more you borrow the more you can spend. Under this truism, the Government and the public borrowed and spent more than they ever had before...