Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year will center around the Radcliffe-sponsored trination tour of Belgium, France, and Holland. Early word of the mechanics of the tour has already been announced; students will probably travel in reconverted troopships and rates for undergraduates under the NSA plan will be only a fraction of the standard steamship rates...
John W. Teele '27, Director of Student Placement, stressed that any student applying for these Civil Service posts must take these examinations. They are fairly non-specialized and resemble standard collegiate aptitude tests...
...chief trouble with European intellectuals, says Visson, is that they are bothered by "... a society which believed that to raise the living standard of the masses was more important than to bring to an even higher perfection the literary, philosophic or artistic achievements of the intellectual elite." Author Visson devotes much of his book to a rogue's gallery of brilliant and not-so-brilliant Europeans who have lately explored...
...When Kraft Foods Co. plugged one of its lesser-known brands of cheese over TV, dealers in Philadelphia sold out the next day. Such success has brought new advertisers flocking in-their number rose from 243 in June to 495 in October-but at a very heavy price. The standard rate for one network TV hour in New York (exclusive of talent, production, etc.) is $1,000. Telecasters estimate that they need about $3,000 to break even. As a result, the entire industry is on a cost-cutting hunt. Some new twists...
...barely enough paper to keep alive, and not nearly enough to tell all the news. For nine postwar months, the Labor government let newspapers print all the copies they could sell. But in the summer of 1947, to cut down imports, the government again froze circulations and cut most standard-size papers back to four measly pages...