Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy wives and have to stay put while their husbands move to new locations...
...days earlier London's press campaign against Perth Control (TIME, Sept. 25) had come to a climax when the Evening Standard printed an editorial in which it accused the Ministry of harboring political jobholders without news experience. Said the Standard: "It is staffed to capacity three or four times over, but stuffed with incapacity. We are not fighting the big Hitler on the Rhine only to set up little Hitlers here...
Seven inches long, first cousin to the earthworm but with livelier ambitions, Ascaris lumbricoides is one of the commonest parasites found in the intestines of man. The worms, which usually plague children more than adults, enter the body in infected vegetables, may cause diarrhea, colic, convulsions. Standard anthelmintic (worm-killer) for ascarids is bitter oil of chenopodium (wormseed oil), usually given in capsule form. Last week in Science, Chemists Julius Berger and Conrado Frederico Asenjo of the University of Wisconsin stood up for a primitive worm-killer which is sweeter, cheaper, and just as powerful: fresh pineapple juice...
...Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since 1853. Full of brief, "intimate" instructions for every type of standard operation from appendectomy to tonsillectomy, their manual is also crammed with scalpel-neat pen-drawings by Medical Artist Mildred Codding. As important to the authors as the practical instructions for "unfledged surgeons" are the simple, poetical introductory chapters on the "science of gentleness...
...reason why $87.50 seemed a more logical price than $100 for War Baby No. i Bethlehem Steel, was this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like $1,000,000,000 of unconsumed production. Meanwhile, standard domestic consumption indices (like department store sales) are doing no booming at all. Even Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck have suddenly lost their 1938-39 oomph. Only a real export boom seemed likely to save the U. S. from some pretty drastic inventory trouble...