Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...champions. In addition to the exhibition pool described above, the building also contains one of the largest suspended swimming pools in the world. Used primarily for practice, this 167-foot stretch of water is divided by a movable bulkhead, which can be adjusted to make the pool fit any standard American or Metric course...
Norton Dodge, a graduate fellow in Economics, found the level of scientific training "very high," but the "general education" of the average Russian university student apparently somewhat below the standard in the United States. This is due, he said, to the Marxist ideology imposing itself on the subject matter, and to the narrow specialization characterizing Soviet education...
...took advice, and she chose whom she took it from." And then he added, with a bluntness that distressed even some of his supporters: "We are fighting against a great popular wave of stupid emotionalism." The Archbishop's attitude on divorce, huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "makes it inevitable that the question of the disestablishment of the Church of England must be urgently examined...
...stock market, spurred by news that Standard Oil (New Jersey), the world's No. 1 oil company, planned a 3 for 1 stock split, surged out of its doldrums, wiping out October's losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average made its largest weekly gain since...
After Strobel was through testifying, GSA Chief Mansure told newsmen that he would let Strobel resign. Said Mansure: "Strobel has done nothing really wrong, but he just didn't use good judgment." He added that Strobel had not only put off signing the GSA's standard no conflict-of-interest pledge for half a year, but that it also took months to get a list of his firm's clients...