Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the other passengers on the oil-powered dreamboat profess to admire the skipper's hard-fisted style of command. "Don't rock the boat," say prosperous U.S. businessmen, happily noting the political quiet, record oil production, boom-time construction and the rising standard of living (70% up in the last decade). But the advice is given so often as to reflect at least a subconscious awareness that the boat may be somewhat unseaworthy. Sample weaknesses...
...values, too, objected Psychiatrist Wheelwright, though they try to avoid injecting their own values into therapy. When a patient has an inadequate value system of his own, "one of the [psychiatrist's] jobs is helping him choose one." This bothered Father Hurley. "Is there no goal or standard?" he asked...
...jaundice) have tripled in the U.S. since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
...author of Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, rather than showing his old mettle with the Irish tongue, offers mere bits of verbal Irish lace. Some fairly standard jokes about the Irish and the clergy take on almost the character of leitmotivs. Even most of the characters fail to come off-including Paul Lukas as the baron. There the play does not give the Devil his due: the one thing an emissary of his would most certainly not be is a crashing bore...
...done just that-and thus established a new and burgeoning industry. Each week about 3,000 more homes go hifi. A mere fad until recently, hi-fi has become a $250 million business (equipment sales have increased as much as 500% in some areas since 1952). There is a standard pattern: about two years after an area is saturated with TV, hi-fi moves...