Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of sheer nose-counting, the Protestant churches still show a slight percentage gain over population increase. But, says Churchman Morrison, "numerical growth is not the only criterion. . . . We must look also at the whole cultural, political, and economic scene within which Protestantism lives. Our question will then be: Is Protestantism growing in influence and spiritual power faster than these forces and interests external to itself...
...years, a little English magazine called Horizon has come closer than anything in sight to filling the void left by the U.S.'s famed Dial (1880-1929) and T. S. Eliot's London Criterion (1922-39). Horizon's influence is out of all proportion to its 10,000 circulation...
...Criterion Unchanged...
...going to try to take a respectable number of Freshmen from civilian schools," said Gummere in summarizing admissions policy. Our criterion for selecting these men will be exactly the same as before the war, but the number will be limited to just what we can accommodate...
Pravda spoke in its own esoteric tongue. From the turgid depths of Marxist dialectics it dredged up the basic criterion for Soviet art: "The significance of the ideological and creative evolution of the Moscow Art Theater . . . consists in its recognition of partisanship...