Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stevenson concluded that doctors should 1) look for emotional disturbances in all cases of irregular heartbeats, and 2) consider psychotherapy as another standard treatment for heart trouble...
...earned their pay unless they prowl the premises like Sam Spades, do more harm than good. They appear to hold the belief that every student has spent the term laying elaborate plans for skulldudgery on the final exam. Such an attitude is contrary to the "innocent until proven guilty" standard of common law,--and it is like the Chinese water torture for exam-writers, who are demonstrably the jumpiest of humans...
Physicians have failed to find a satisfactory way of permanently curing peptic (stomach) ulcers, said the University of California's Theodore Althausen. The standard treatment (bland diet) temporarily cures 90% of the cases; but 10% to 36% develop ulcers again within six months after the "cure," from 46% to 93% within five years...
Plans to choose a nominee for Vice-President were dropped because of the amount of time consumed picking the GOP's Presidential standard bearer...
With Gilbert and Sullivan operettas as with very few other kinds of entertainment there is a standard which the production either does or doesn't meet. The D'Oyly Carte Company set the standard at the premiere of each of the works way back in the Nineteenth Century, and it alone holds to the standard. Other companies try to do the operettas every now and then, but at best they are obvious substitutes--the spark is not there...