Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialist, and some 25,000 do. The American Medical Association takes the word of its members and lists them in the Directory as surgeons, or public health specialists, or obstetricians, sensitively differentiating ophthalmologists (eyes) and otorhinolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat) from ophthalmo-otorhino-laryngologists (eye-ear-nose-throat). Chief criterion for specialists, other than their say-so, has been membership in one of the multitude of learned societies in Canada or the U. S.. such as the American Association of Obstetricians. Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons, or the Central Society for Clinical Research...
Dandiacal in appearance, he has acquired an ostentatiously English accent. He once taught baseball in an English school, today writes long letters to the London Time's about cheese, edits the London Criterion...
Today swimming at Harvard is one of the four most popular winter sports. Hockey, basketball and track are all in the major qualification. Interest in a sport shown by its participants and by its followers is the criterion by which it is classed as major or minor, and because of the number of people who use the pool and the number who watch the meets swimming deserves to be elevated to the level of hockey, basketball and track...
...they will not wrestle with them. Satire flourishes in the slicks, but it is satire of manners. Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived, is a commonplace in the slicks but genuine tragedy would be as out of place there as a chorus from 'Antigone' interpolated between innings at a baseball game. . . . That fact, not the timidity or hypocrisy of editors, determines the nature...
...qualities which Rhodes specified as composing the criterion for selection included: literary and schoastic ability and attainments; qualities of "manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship"; exhibition of "moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates"; physical vigor...