Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found many departments where tutorial has been cut below the maximum allowable under the Faculty ruling of last December. In some, Sophomores will in the future be excluded from tutorial; in others, the Faculty's honors candidacy criterion has been further narrowed by excluding from honors candidacy, and hence from tutorial, all men below Group III. Several departments have abolished tutorial altogether...
Added Editor Canham, whose Monitor never stoops to peep: "Newspapers . . . assume, correctly, that the public likes to read this sort of thing. But is that the final criterion? Or is it even a correct long-range analysis of the profit motive? Will not this continual nursing of demagogic power in the hands of a few keyhole columnists react against newspapers in the long...
...knew how many men it would take to occupy Japan or how long the occupation would last. If Germany was any criterion, the Japanese occupation would be neither as long nor as thorough as many expected it to be (German occupation estimates last week: 250,000 men, two and a half years...
...Committee for Economic Development launched an assault on the U.S. tax structure. In a 47-page brochure (expertly written by the Book-of-the-Month Club's Harry Scherman), the C.E.D. attempted to put a new face on the U.S. tax system, with full postwar employment as the criterion...
Boss Petrillo's favorite contention, that "canned music" has caused widespread unemployment among musicians, got harsher treatment. Said the panel flatly: "No present important unemployment of musicians exists. Two union members out of three do not depend on music for a livelihood. The union's criterion, that a member not working full time on music is unemployed, is untenable." Also, the panel concluded after 1,970 pages of testimony, radio and the phonograph record probably have not decreased employment...