Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wits. His fellow pros say that he doesn't play greens-"he thinks them." Before every tee shot, he selects the exact spot where he wants his ball to stop rolling; he expects to come very close. From each of his clubs he exacts similar standard ranges (see chart). Between shots, as he walks briskly along the fairway, Hogan's mind is working ahead. Heading for a second shot on one hole, he will crane to see where the pin has been spotted on a nearby green still to be played (pins are moved every day in tournament...
...virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...
...that. To step up production to meet the gargantuan demand, industry had expanded its plants to the tune of $18.7 billion during the year. Much of the expansion had been bought with profits and reserves, because there was a grave shortage of risk capital to finance it. As Jersey Standard's Gene Holman said: "Without our high profits we couldn't have expanded the way we did." The oil industry, which had rolled up the "biggest profits of any industry ($2 billion), was a classic example of the way profits had been put to work...
Summer jobs averaging $45 a week are open to juniors and seniors who want to work with the Civil Service's Students Aid Program, the Student Placement Office announced yesterday. Only catch in the deal comes early this month in the form of a standard examination...
Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...