Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus does a southern churchman suggest a new criterion for the eternal masculine. By advocating the wholesale growth of hirsute appendages as the final hedge about manhood--the final hazard for women to jump in her pursuit of virility, the bishop, insures himself a place in the category of reforming saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
...being a human attribute, it is subject to the intermittent rule of human fallibility. To proceed on the unproved theorem that intelligence can consciously change the world is so great risk that it is justified in proceeding with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that its miscarriage is constantly producing." Pilate's embarrassing question: What is truth?" is still as much of a poser to theorists as it ever...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...
...first game of the season against Clan Lindsay was won after a hard struggle by a score of 1 to 0 while Amherst held the University to a one point tie. The latter game, however, can hardly be considered a criterion of the team's strength as it was played under very poor weather conditions. University Cornell Thomas, g g., Dake Tarnowsky, l.f.b. l.f.b., Chapman McKinnon (Captain), r.f.b. r.f.b., Marein Wickersham, l.h.b. l.h.b., Tonkonogy Rubin, c.h.b. c.h.b., Ivanoff Carr, r.h.b. r.h.b., Bamman Gherardi, o.r. o.r., Kreiger Crooks, i.r. i.r., Bacon Wright, c. c. Bowdish (Captain) Trevvett, i.l. i.l. McCrohan Driggs...
...that he has expressed it counts for something. In a nation whose state of civilization remains a bone of contention for all gnawing intellects, the existence of one man who can honestly say that he has spent a lifetime in study and glimpsed, even glimpsed Nothing, implies a certain criterion of progress...