Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This aid, designated for the Graduate School, marks the first instance of a corporation giving money to a graduate school for women, although such corporations as Standard Oil of New Jersey have given gifts to Radcliffe College this year...
...secret, top secret." More important, he would find that the old compartments of knowledge no longer have their old rigid meanings. At Caltech it is possible to find a top geologist, e.g., Harrison Brown, who has never taken a formal course in geology. It is not only possible, but standard operating procedure for the scholars of Caltech to invade each other's fields as if no walls had ever existed between them at all. "Nature," says Physicist Bacher, "is not physics or chemistry or biology. It is all three-and much more besides." As one alumnus...
...should outnumber classrooms about five to one. And out of these laboratories have come some major revolutions in knowledge. The terms that Caltech has made important -cosmic ray, Badger's rule, alpha helix, Neurospora, positron, meson and mumeson-may not be exactly household words, but they have become standard parts of science's vocabulary...
...reinforced the glowing picture. RCA announced record first-quarter earnings of $12,568,000, 25% up over last year, and so did Sinclair Oil and Bristol-Myers. The New York Central made $4,523,646 in April as against $503,682 a year ago and first-quarter net of Standard Oil (Indiana) rose...
...mind of Captain Jessie P. Rice, a former Georgia schoolteacher and sports reporter, came the idea of the "All-States Plan," under which each state was to recruit a WAC company that would carry the state flag and wear the armband in training. Business was persuaded to help, e.g., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana sent out posters of "The Girl with the Star-Spangled Heart" instead of its old sales pitch to "Drain Old Oil Now." Enlistments rose to an average 3,000 a month...