Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luther Weigle was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches, which he shepherded through the first two years of the war. His biggest extracurricular job has been as chairman of the committee at work revising the Standard Version of the Bible. Since 1930, headquarters for this ambitious project by U.S. and British scholars have been at Yale. After his retirement, Chairman Weigle expects to devote his full time to the committee, which completed the New Testament in 1946 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), and hopes to finish...
BUICK is banking heavily on its "revolutionary" Dynaflow automatic transmission, which has eliminated the manual shift for normal driving. This year Dynaflow is standard on Buick's big 155-h.p. Roadmaster, extra ($200) on the 120-h.p. Super. Buick's circular "venti-ports" on its front fenders, partly a styling fillip and partly for engine cooling, have already earned the Super the nickname the "three-holer" and the Roadmaster the "four-holer...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...
Volleyball competition between Yard dormitories next term is slated for a definite decision by Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, sometime this week. The seven-man freshman athletic council has applied for permission to run a round robin early next term with the standard two league...
Lancaster wears his considerable knowledge of Greek history and architecture without pretension, and his first-rate drawings in line and color make Classical Land, scape a far more attractive guide than the standard authorities. What gives Lancaster's book its special quality is the easy and pertinent shuttling from present to past and back to the immediate. His Anglo-Saxon standards, it turns out, left him with plenty to admire-from the Byzantine intrusions on the classic architecture so revered by the purists, to the Greeks themselves, whom he found lazy, but rarely rude or stupid...