Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow's in design or in direct combat, but whether or not it can perform its mission. The Russian bomber...
...choice existed for Henry James, T.S. Eliot and Auden," he writes, and it still exists today, but the ultimate criterion for a permanent ocean hop is neither political nor financial. "If the U.S. were really sitting pretty, as unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...poetical criterion which has directed Berenson's personal vision; all the more unique for an "expert," (the quotation marks are his own), to say of his ideal, "IT is incapable of analysis, requires no explanations and no apology, is self-evident and right. ... One may sing about it but not discuss it. IT is the most immediate and mystical...
...Employment Office exercises a definite influence for needy students in considering possible managers for agencies. "We try to pick our managers on the basis of need and business ability," Burke notes. Under this criterion, a student of means would be excluded from agency management unless he brought up the original idea. The outgoing manager, in conjunction with the director of Student Employment, can nominate a successor for the approval of the Board of Directors. However, since nine of the fifteen directors are graduates now in business and without direct College contact, approval is only rubber-stamp...
That left five Negroes to go, and these, said the school board, failed to meet the last criterion-"adaptability to new situations." Straightfaced, Arlington School Board Superintendent Ray E. Reid testified that the five Negroes sure had "outstanding qualities" to get through the first four criteria, but that was just why they ought not to be admitted to white schools. Reid's reasoning: in white schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington...