Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TiME-readers' recipes have not appeared in print before. Others have been contributed by TiME-reading women known for cookbooks of their own: Mrs. Irma Rombauer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Frances Parkinson Keyes. As you may have guessed, The TIME Reader's Book of Recipes is not a standard cookbook but a collection of favorite recipes that are different from those you would find in such a book. It is entirely the work of TIME'S women readers, not TIME'S editors, and we have had a fine time-and some wonderful eating-putting it together...
...European history or science might find some use for a language, they should continue to meet at least the present minimum requirement. Perhaps there should even be a broader and more comprehensive one, including some basic knowledge of foreign culture and intellectual history. But for others, an altogether different standard should be set perhaps in some cases no standard at all, since a little language is not worth much...
Such disciplinary action for defacement of property has been standard procedure at Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, and Harvard for several years. No students have been dropped here for vandalism, however, since before...
...return from service, Anderson went back to work for Fiedler, composing what is perhaps his most widely-heard number, "Fiddle-Faddle," in 1947. The newly-reorganized Harvard Band asked his help and he wrote medleys of most of the Ivy League songs; these became standard with the Band and have since been copied by many other eastern college bands because of their popularity...
Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...