Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the final curtain, half of the Bayreuth audience seemed in tears, clapped for 15 minutes. With Tannhäuser, the Bayreuth brothers have now redraped all the standard Wagner works in their new, bare, dramatically lighted dress. Their style has become a prototype for new Wagner productions in most major opera houses. Notable exception: New York's Metropolitan, whose Wagner producers seem never to have heard of Bayreuth's lighting, let alone Minsky...
...diseases may be by sure means prevented or cured not excepting even that of age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure beyond the antediluvian standard. -Benjamin Franklin...
...standard chore in biological laboratories is weighing the experimental animals (e.g., mice and guinea pigs) to record their rate of growth. Biologist David Marshall Prescott, 27, of the University of California does this chore too, but his experimental animals are amoebas, and they weigh only ten billionths of a gram each...
...been some inexplicable practical joke, sending useless arms to Arbenz would indeed have been the cream of the jest. But members of the U.S. military mission in Guatemala, who have had a preliminary look at the Red arms, say that they were entirely usable. They included thousands of standard Mauser rifles, machine guns and machine pistols, hand grenades, mortars, 37-mm. antitank guns (deadly against trucks), 75-mm. howitzers suited to the local terrain, plus antitank and anti-personnel mines. All were in shooting condition. Not for lack of weapons, but because it had no heart for defending Communists...
MOST POPULAR STOCKS of investors under the New York Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan are (in order) Radio Corp. of America, Dow Chemical, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, Standard Oil (NJ.) and General Electric. After nearly six months, M.I.P. has attracted $4,000,000 from 20,000 investors (67% men, 17% women, 16% joint accounts...