Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lippmann has a ready answer. It is his great discovery, his golden nugget. Lacking it he never would have had reason to write "The Good Society." The criterion for the activities of the laborer, the farmer, the corporation head, and the public official is to be the perfectly free market, which classical economists have posed as the corollary of the division of labor brought about by the industrial revolution...
...keeps Dublin audiences happy and the Irish Free State satisfied that its subsidy is not being wasted, the renowned Abbey Theatre Players last week began an extended season in the U. S. Less sanctified since the competitive rise of the lively Dublin Gate Theatre, the Abbey is still a criterion for rounded ensemble playing...
Baseball tradition says that the teams that lead the major leagues on July 4 will win the pennants. Another criterion of the baseball races is the players' performances in the annual All-Star game. Inaugurated in Chicago as an Exposition stunt, the All-Star game between an American League team and a National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants...
...woman on earth ever made more or bigger headlines than Wallis Warfield Simpson. Known to practically no one when 1936 began, to practically everyone when it ended, she fulfilled TIME'S prime criterion for the news-character most indelibly identified with the past year. Not with the quality but with the calibre of Mrs. Simpson's achievements is TIME concerned...
...Accused (Criterion) starts in the formula of a backstage musicomedy, ends in the formula of a courtroom melodrama. The transition occurs when someone murders the leading lady (Florence Desmond) of a Paris revue, just after her advances to the show's male dancer (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) have aroused the indignation of his knife-throwing wife (Dolores...