Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this point on, the standard of play degenerated, as tempers flared under the provocation of impartially incompetent refereeing. The Bears scored two more tries, on bulling forward rushes by 240 lb. Don Gilkey and football star Jim Hughes, to register what the Daily Californian called "their second telling blow for western rugby in three days...
...profitable arrangement with the enthusiasts on Sunday. Buses lined the front of Union Station when the Safari arrived, and conducted visitors to "points of interest in historic Portland." While some of the tour was geared to appeal to the rail fan, much of the fifty-cent ride included such standard attractions as Lincoln Oaks, where, the driver noted, a lady's handbag was once snitched by a playful swan and carried to an island inaccessible to anyone except the police. Other vital points of interest included the City Hall, the First Baptist Church ("Jesus Never Fails"), and the scene...
After the war, he published The Age of Jackson, challenging the standard analysis of Jackson as the arch frontiersman, and reinterpreting the period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...
...Schlesinger found an organ for his beliefs in the A.D.A., he found a political standard-bearer in his friend Adlai Stevenson. In 1952 he joined Stevenson's "brain trust" and helped write speeches for the candidate. If Stevenson is nominated again, Schlesinger may use his sabbatical next year to aid his campaign, as well as to finish his Roosevelt study...
While the guild's first production will be standard repertoire opera, it intends to experiment with modern and other types of opera. It has not yet been decided whether "The Barber of Seville" will be sung in Italian or English...