Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current hullaballoo precipitated by attempts of assorted self-appointed guardians of public morals to cut parts of "Duel in the Sun" and "The Outlaw" raises some questions about the entire question of film censorship. If box office receipts are a good criterion, the public rushes to see any movie given the thumbs-down treatment by the women's downtown sewing club. The numerous amateur and state boards of review create delightful confusion, all the while playing into the hands of the film press agent...
...same time, F. S. C. Northrop, professor of Philosophy at Yale and author of "Meeting of East and West," called for a scientific rather than esthetic approach to the problem of finding a universal criterion for modern ethics...
...prescribed date, they have gone elsewhere, leaving an unfilled gap in the Department behind them. The enthusiastic reception of Schorer's book on William Blake, published subsequent to his departure from Harvard, is evidence of the fallaciousness of the University's insistence on published research as the dominant criterion of its Faculty appointments...
Warmly endorsing the Nanking government, the Professor paints an encouraging picture of the reconversion of the Chinese nation to an efficient peacetime basis. Were efficiency the highest criterion of government there would be little reason for Americans to withhold judgment on the Nanking government. It does appear to be the strongest single force in China. But Professor Pound forgets, and this is the same omission that permitted praise of early Fascist Italy by some "for making the trains run on time," that the United States is interested in China not as a smoothly-running machine but as a two-party...
...committee's criterion of a satisfactory answer was that the U.S. should never again be caught as desperately short of rubber as it was in World War II. For the sake of efficiency the committee ruled out Government ownership; proposed sale of the "basic" butadiene and copolymer plants to private industry. These are the main lot of low-cost producing units with a capacity of 450,000 tons a year, about two-thirds prewar U.S. rubber consumption. "Fringe" plants (not planned as permanent) are already being disposed...