Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muscle-Flexing. The strike cost Fleet Street upwards of $8,000,000, and the Star, Evening News and Evening Standard were forced to raise prices a halfpenny to recoup some of their lost revenue. It also taught British publishers a hard lesson in Communist tactics. The strike was called against all members of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association by the Communist-dominated Electrical Trades Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, whose London locals are also under Communist influence...
...together some time after class. To the amazement of parents and teachers alike, the students took the hints: they began showing up for extra work, not only on weekends but as early as 5 o'clock in the morning. Harrington's Dawn Patrol classes became a standard fixture in Albuquerque. Though he never drove them ("You can't brutalize a course and expect a kid to go on with it"), he led hundreds of students into stages of science that they would not otherwise have confronted until well into college courses...
Political Scents. In Brewton, Ala., the Brewton Standard polled its readers to find out whether they favored the proposed construction of a local paper mill, announced that 3,936 had voted "to smell," only eleven "not to smell...
...Student Standard...
...find the teachers whose interests and skills coincide with elementary language courses, the University must go outside the ranks of graduate students. Using the most effective and enthusiastic high school language teachers as a standard, the College should hire permanent language instructors, who would teach the beginning and intermediate sections of German, French and Spanish. Graduate students and regular research men could continue to teach the literary courses at the upper levels, where their special interests and insights would continue to lend color to their teaching...