Word: standard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kittinger, 31, drove up to a 2 a.m. rendezvous in the clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet. At 3:30 a.m. he lay down on a tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing...
...standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled in nine years, and sugar output is up some 30%. With tripled electric-power capacity, hundreds of new factories turn out textiles, bicycles, gasoline, cement, electric motors and other modern goods...
Each generation has a touching faith that its ditties have just been invented. The rhyme "House to let, apply within/ Lady turned out for drinking gin" was standard in 1892. The Opies have collected it as far away as Australia and South Africa, but little English girls are sure that no one else has ever heard it. When they sing a modern hymn to Cinemactress Diana Dors, none dream that it comes straight from a 60-year-old original, "Lottie Collins has no drawers...
Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...
...testimony to the ruggedness of the small cars, there were no mechanical breakdowns. But the race was hard on the standard tires, particularly those on Chevy's five Corvairs, which had to slow down to make sure that they would finish. At the final flag, American Motors' Rambler was out in front averaging 55.5 m.p.h., with a Volkswagen second. A pair of Ford Falcons drove off with third and fourth, and two Corvairs had to settle for sixth and seventh...