Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Effective this fall, students contending for the Dean's List will have to stand in the top 25 per cent of their class, rather than meet the old standard of a grade average of 80 per cent. The cut was made to "preserve the prestige" of the list, Associate Dean Richard C. Carsoll said...
Republican Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democrats' Standard Bearer Adlai Stevenson, hit her low boiling point in Chicago upon learning that burglars had ransacked her country house in Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured...
...Manufacturing Co. soon went on the board with 16,000 shares sold, down 3 points from the previous close of 17½. At 10:30, Royal Dutch Petroleum opened with 14,000 shares, down 10 points from 86. Slowly, other blocks appeared on the tape: 15,600 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey, off 10⅛ from 139⅛; 17,000 shares of Cities Service, off 7¾ from 62¾; 20,000 shares of Phillips Petroleum, off 7⅛ from 79⅜; 20,000 shares of RCA, off 5¼ from 50¾; 25,000 shares of Bethlehem...
...molded into the trunk lid. Under its 6-ft. hood is a souped-up Lincoln engine with an estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning. To preserve its elegant finish (two double coats of lacquer, triple-thickness chromium plating), each Continental will be shipped to the dealer in a fleece-lined canvas and plastic envelope...
Undaunted by this problem, various local authorities have squirmed out from under the fenders recently to offer various solutions. High on their list, of course, is the standard reaction of throwing both hands up into the air and declaring--with a disgusted sigh--that one of these days the University will have to restrict undergraduate cars. This point of view, though it has a certain mathematical logic, is simply unacceptable to most members of the University. A hands-off policy toward student cars has long symbolized Harvard's desire to treat its students as adults, and no one wants...