Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Judge Morris A. Soper interpreted this to mean that the home juicemaker was exempt from the arbitrary definition that ½% alcoholic content makes a beverage "intoxicating." For beverages on sale, he held that the ½% criterion was legal and unassailable, but within the walls of a man's home what he made exclusively for his own use was not to be so strictly governed...
...returns from the polls. But no matter how black things may turn out, a silver lining shines through their dark cloud. The report of Professor Henry T. Moore of Dartmouth indicates that they are the most intelligent group represented among the political divisions at Harvard, at least by the criterion of the Rank List...
...weeks to the mid-year examinations, while men who go a probation at the mid-year examinations may regain their good standing after a six-week period at the April hour examinations. This system places too much emphasis on the November her examinations, which are really no criterion by which to judge a man's work, while the mid-year examinations, which are a fair test, are thus under-raced...
...America on account of ill health at an early age. In Denver, Colorado, he made his stage debut in the fall of 1884 as a servant in the popular melodrama "East Lynne". The next year he returned to England and there he made his first London appearance at the Criterion Theatre as Mr. Pilkie in "The Great Divorce Case". Since that time he has appeared in many plays both in England and America...
...left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited, nor to New York or Chicago, where it might have been expected his sympathies would have drawn him. He came instead to Boston--to staid, conservative Boston--to the capital of New England where the criterion of what should be done is ever what has been done! But great as is this initial wonder, it grows dim in comparison with the miracle that Boston likes him, flocks to hear him, and refuses to be shocked...