Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were especially proud of the splendid review given The Conquest of Everest [TIME, Dec. 21] because of the little known fact that the entire film was taken with standard Bell & Howell 16-mm. amateur movie cameras. The footage was later blown up to 35-mm. for theatrical release, a feat rarely attempted because of the loss of film quality that normally ensues. The cameras had to be specially lubricated to operate from...
...supported by the Journal, has only respect for the paper: "The Journal is almost utterly dominant in the community. It's the intellectual life of Milwaukee. You discuss the issues the Journal raises [and] you hardly know of the existence of any other issues. The Journal's standard of morals, political and social, sets an all-enveloping stamp on the city...
...first year, with his usual energy, Grant took seven courses (four was standard), lived in an attic, wore secondhand clothes and did odd jobs to add to his savings. By the end of the year, his money ran out, so Grant took a job selling roofing in the Southwest until he saved enough for a second try at Harvard. After struggling through the second year, he gave up and moved to a cheap room in Hoboken, having lost his "illusions about what an education could do for me." By limiting himself to 11? a day for lunch and not much...
Perhaps the most notable change goes farthest back into American life: cooking over an open fire. In the newest expensive kitchens, fireplaces or barbecue pits are standard equipment. Other householders use broilers or rotisseries. Broiler sales last year reached $72,402,000, more than quadruple :he 1952 total. One new firm, the Broil-Quik Co., grossed around $1,000,000 in 1950, its first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie...
Barriers &Penalties. Setting out in standard stock cars from such widely divergent starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich and Athens, the contestants ran through natural and national barriers with little difficulty. The race, as always, was to the most precise rather than the swiftest, and contestants were penalized for breakdowns, delays, missing an obligatory checkpoint or being caught exceeding the 65-kilometer (40 m.p.h.) speed limit...