Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilots by his single-minded zeal. He repeatedly badgered his superiors to send him to Korea. Once there, he looked for extra tours of duty, unlike his comrades had little fear of being killed in combat. A mission was a personal challenge. Functioning best when allowed some leeway from standard procedure, the ace often spotted MIGs long before his squadron-mates, was always willing to take risks for a shot at the opponent...
Almost inevitably, their chairman is Dr. Robert Collier Page, 46. Medical director for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and new president of the Industrial Medical Association, Dr. Page is the nation's most articulate pleader for a sweeping program of preventive medicine at the plant. Instead of waiting for a worker to get sick and then treating him, he argues, management should protect its investment in his health by doing everything possible to keep him from ever getting sick...
...final, meeting the cream of the twelve competing colleges (Penn. Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Wisconsin). After the starter's cry of "Ready all . . . row!", Navy's lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 178 Ibs.) Stroke Oar Ed Stevens quickly brought his crew up to the standard 40-strokes-a-minute racing start. Stroke Stevens, who likes to have the opposition trailing him so that he can keep an eye on them, held it at 40 until Navy had a half-length lead. Then he let his huskies settle back to a 33 beat, holding it there while Navy gradually...
Ever since Cleveland's Pitcher Bob Feller burst on the baseball scene 18 years ago as "the fastest man since Walter Johnson," baseball scouts have combed the bushes and sandlots looking for another speed-bailer. "Faster than Feller" became the standard label for any strong-armed busher with speed, and since "Rapid Robert's" heyday, countless youngsters have been called "another Feller." None has managed to live up to his press clippings. But last week baseball men were finally convinced that another Feller had arrived in the person of burly (6 ft. 2 in., 207 Ibs.) Robert...
...whether they lend themselves to English translation is another matter. Marianne Moore is the only first-rate poet who has ever undertaken to do the whole job. How much better she has done than the standard translators becomes quickly apparent in The Head and Tail of the Serpent. A turn-of-the-century version put the familiar stanza this...