Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could recall no time when they might have acted differently if they were explicitly following Christ's injunction: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." At the same time, 82% regretfully decided that most of the people they knew went only part way in meeting this Christian standard...
...lines, the New York stock market had sputtered upward in short uncertain bursts. One day last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days and not far from the year's high...
Late returns from the Harvard Faculty maintained Dewey's four to one edge over Truman, as the Republican standard bearer garnered 368 votes to Truman...
...sound money and good gold. To beat William Jennings Bryan, the sound money forces behind McKinley, the Republican, and Palmer, the Independent Democrat, joined forces in a huge intercollegiate parade in Boston. A little too much fireworks and a trifle too much gaiety brought police billies down on gold standard skulls. But this kind of showmanship won followers, and Bryan was left with only 108 supporters...
...preference for Dewey among students, however, will hardly come as a surprise, as past CRIMSON polls have shown that Harvard students traditionally support the Republican standard bearer...