Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the conference determined to stick by the traditional three-mile limit, first suggested by a Dutch scholar back in 1703 when that distance was about the maximum range of a cannon. Though cannon range is no longer a criterion, the U.S. still has powerful reasons for not wanting to see nations stretch their territorial claims farther and thus shrink by hundreds of thousands of miles the great body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier...
DESPERATE MISSION (310 pp.)-Joel Brand's story, as told by Alex Weissberg-Criterion...
...practicing C.P.A. until 1933, Producer Bloomgarden has a good record for picking hits (The Lark, Death of a Sales man, Command Decision), but he has had his flops too. His basic criterion for picking: "I have to like it. It's a terrible thing to do a show just because you think it's going to make a million bucks...
...Nuclear Future (Criterion Books; $3.50). Coauthor: Albert L. Latter, theoretical physicist on the staff of Santa Monica's Rand Corp...
...understanding too occult for syntax" school of criticism. But the Department can, without lowering its commendable standards, re-examine the undergraduate theory courses in which concentrators complain that there are too many detailed exercises intended as a discipline for composers. And although popularity is not always a proper criterion of a good course, consistent unpopularity often indicates a basic defect; when this popularity comes from those most interested in a subject as music majors are, it should be noted and acted upon. Now that Music 1 is no longer the introductory course, Music 51, if it is to remain...