Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prepared, in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, to hold hearings this week on bills calling for a U.S. return to the gold standard...
...stories are important, which stories will be of paramount interest to their readers . . . When the man who runs a newspaper decides to 'play down' the news of any individual, he is fooling with the fiercest sort of fire ... In his news columns ... he must observe the single standard: Is it news? McCarthy is news, all over America, and almost every day. Publicity did not create him . . . Publicity will not save him, if the public grows weary of him and stops reading about his activities...
...this year as a broker in penny stocks. Stockseller Coombs also started his own brokerage firm. Others got into the act, formed their own companies and began peddling stock. The boom will come of age when & if Prospector Steen and ex-Automan Joseph Frazer, who have formed Standard Uranium, get their stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange, as scheduled...
...sure of the reason, either. It might be the petitmal form of epilepsy, or a brain tumor. At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Neurosurgeon William H. Sweet tried the electroencephalogram ("brainwave machine") and got indications of a local disorder, but nothing definite enough to justify major brain surgery. Another standard test (in itself fairly drastic), involving the injection of air into the brain cavities, showed nothing. Not long ago Holly Hyde would have had to wait for her condition to worsen, imperiling her understanding of language and perhaps endangering her life, before the doctors could have felt certain of what...
...general, the more money a quiz show gives away the less entertainment it offers. By this standard, Strike It Rich, Break the Bank and a dozen others rate even below daytime soap operas as adult amusement. Quiz shows, which currently make up about 20% of network programming, have been gradually dropping in popularity. Each summer the percentage makes a sudden rise as inexpensive quizzes are thrown into the breach left by vacationing winter shows, but few of them survive into the following season. One network executive may have been speaking for most of the industry when, asked what he thinks...