Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...besides just a scholarly interest in that country's culture is shown by the fact that his non-academic interest is "rambling in the Alps." In this sense, his stay in New England will be a bit disappointing, since Mount Washington should not measure up to the Alpine "rambling" standard...
...Getting the bugs out" is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a new airplane is delivered. The trouble with Central African Airways' brand-new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs would not go. They were not, in fact, airplane-type bugs at all, but a swarm of 75,000 bees which came hiving out of nowhere soon after the plane landed in Salisbury, to take up happy residence in one of its wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into...
...turn a steady profit; where they do not, the church pays their deficits. The press still suffers widely from what Bishop Dwyer called "a good deal of pious incompetence." But the intellectual weeklies-the liberal lay Commonweal and the Jesuit-edited America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan papers both professional polish and a telling effect in their communities. Last week the association honored New Jersey's weekly Advocate (circ...
...World, into a financial career. After working up to business editor, he quit to study mining law, later hung his shingle over a tent at Red Lake camp in Ontario's 1925 gold rush. On his return to Toronto, Trebilcock was appointed counsel to the old Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Canada's key mining market; in 1934 he worked out a merger with its rival, the 104-year-old Toronto Stock Exchange. The concentration of trading power soon pushed Toronto ahead of Montreal, which had traditionally been Canada's financial capital. By 1937, trading volume...
...light photography. The dividers between different sections of the book, and the pictures which introduce the house articles are very well done, especially the silhouette shot of the Dunster, Eliot, and Lowell towers, and the photo of the commuters in the M.T.A. The articles, however, do not approach the standard set by the photography...