Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this number, a standard size for the past ten Freshman classes, approximately 900 will be newcomers, while dropped and provisional Freshmen will make up the rest...
...Burns. Standard treatment for burns, whether caused by incendiary bombs, mustard gas or lewisite, is application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes...
...most wanted: 1) a happy married life, 2) financial success, 3) security for old age, 4) a comfortable standard of living, 5) making a good home. Women: 1) a happy married life, 2) a comfortable standard of living, 3) making a good home, 4) children they could be proud of, 5) travel and adventure...
...none of the Treasury of American Prints was new, most were standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied...
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...