Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkably different from the rabble-rousing Perón of yesteryear: "We may get some results if we try to persuade people to produce more by appealing to their national spirit and ethical principles. But we get better results if we include the stimulus of profit . . . To improve the standard of living, we must work harder to produce more...
...customary departure hour of midnight came, she stayed on, danced with all cutters-in, wound up having ham and eggs at 3 a.m. London's press next day upbraided Aldrich for his news blackout and the ballroom manners of the crude Americans (observed by an Evening Standard spy). But apparently the Queen had seldom had such a ball. Said one guest: "I've never known the royal family to be so happy...
...standard TV tube, the picture is formed by a slim beam of electrons scanning back and forth across the phosphor on its front face, like a garden hose washing a wall. The Willys tube works on the same general principle, but it has no large empty space. It is made of two glass plates an inch or so apart, with a vacuum between. The electron beam enters from an upper corner. The electrons move horizontally between the glass sheets and stream past metal "deflection plates...
Sales of the standard loomed Axminster wool rugs have declined more than 20% in the last decade, and only the fancier wool grades are gaining in popularity...
Part of The Public Philosophy is standard Walter Lippmann. He has written this new book in his usual scholar's style, which means that it will reach only a very small percentage of the people who, he believes, are in such dire need of knowledge. But the basic tone of The Public Philosophy is new. In his day Lippmann has been a champion of the New Deal's invented and chosen theories, a writer admittedly guided often by "hastily improvised generalizations." Never before has he shown such firm and specific regard for the natural law and for basic...