Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some editors seemed startled by the "abolition of war" line, although it has been standard MacArthur fare since 1945, when he accepted the Japanese surrender on the Missouri. He wrote the famed no-war, no-arms clause in the Japanese Constitution, and in scores of Tokyo conversations with visiting Americans, he discoursed on the line "War is obsolete...
Known locally as competitions, these functions concentrate upon instruction in the fine points of writing and business. They are judged on the premise that anyone who achieves a basic standard of competence is electable...
...This assessment is standard procedure in cases of destruction in the dormitories," Hoadley explained. "I would give anything to wipe it off. I hope that this measure will make 150 detectives in Mather. If I can find any indication that it was done by outsiders, I will remove the fines...
...Central State College in Ohio, she expected to take a music education degree, instead discovered her voice ("All of a sudden you open your mouth and begin"). She won a Juilliard scholarship, decided to try an opera career despite the fact that at most a dozen roles in the standard repertory are usually considered "suitable" for female Negro singers. After a rousing debut in a Juilliard production of Falstaff, Soprano Price won the lead in the world-traveling revival of Porgy and Bess. (She later married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...
ALASKAN OIL RUSH has begun at Cook Inlet, just south of Anchorage. So far, Standard Oil of California, Shell Oil, Union Oil and Ohio Oil, plus three smaller groups of independents, have leased some 4,500,000 acres at 25? an acre, have drilled three exploratory wells to a depth of 8,000 ft., found traces...