Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SMOG IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA ... IS AN IMPORTANT NEWS STORY BUT . . . YOU PUBLISHED A PHOTOGRAPH OF OUR EL SEGUNDO REFINERY OVER THE CAPTION LINE "DENSE SMOKE, POURING FROM STANDARD OIL REFINERY AT EL SEGUNDO . . ." WHICH SURELY IS AN INDICTMENT OF OUR OPERATIONS. [THE "DENSE SMOKE" IS IN REALITY ONLY HARMLESS WATER VAPOR, [PART OF] THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THIS OR ANY MODERN OIL REFINERY ... AS PROOF WE CAN SUPPLY AERIAL PHOTOS TAKEN ON DAYS OF LOW HUMIDITY WHEN THESE VAPORS ARE NOT VISIBLE...
...PETERSEN PRESIDENT STANDARD OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO...
...Latin Americans agree that a raising of this standard of living can no longer be postponed. Says Henry Holland, the State Department's top official for Latin American affairs: "Perhaps the most important single economic development in the hemisphere is the growing determination among men everywhere somehow ... to feed, clothe, house and educate themselves and their families better." But what should be done...
...advent of the new dean. Despite the elective system, in which all courses are elective after the first year, only a handful of students take many of the more radical policy courses. In preparation for bar examinations and for future practice of the law, most see that the standard courses in Torts, Contracts, and so forth, are safer and perhaps more valuable...
Intellectual competition has been another standard comparison between Harvard and Yale. It was once claimed, with considerable truth, that Harvard flunked out a great number of students--sometimes nearly 30 percent of the first year class...