Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play with an axe to grind. Plot and cast are subordinate to the grinding. So is the entertainment value. But with such men as McClintic, Mielziner, and Muni at the helm of the production, the element of entertainment is far from gone. McClintic and Mielziner are up to standard,--that is praise enough. As for Paul Muni, he's been sun-bathing out in the wilderness of California far too long. He belongs on the stage. He belongs in front of an audience he can feel and which in turn can feel the dynamite of his personality. His performance...
They compared the actual deaths during the several periods (from 1829 to 1862, 1863 to 1893, 1894 to 1923, and 1924 to 1928) with the standard tables (the general average of healthy men of similar ages). In each of the age groups the oarsmen lived longer than the standard groups...
...that oarsmen would naturally be stronger physically than the average men their age, besides getting good food, fresh air, and exercise. However, there was one gratifying fact learned from the investigation; while the life span of the oarsmen has heretofore always been much longer, the life span of the standard group (not oarsmen) during the last few years has been gradually growing longer, so that it now nearly approaches that of the oarsmen. This shows that the life span in general has been increasing...
...conjecture. The tenor of the words used in the statement would seem to imply that public figures to whom any unpleasant notoriety attaches, or who stand at the center of heated non-academic controversies will be banned from Harvard. The motive behind the establishment of this or any other standard would be to ward off possible unfavorable publicity. Certainly it could not be to prevent the perversion of students' minds...
...world's wars by printing two articles on Harvard problems and two on the world's affairs, while a fifth occupies both territories by means of an examination of Harvard's transition toward the martial spirit in 1914-1915. As a whole the issue reaches a high standard both in the breadth and significance of its material and in the vigorous fashion in which it is presented...