Word: desideratum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Substantial justice" is the desideratum which the new rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...
...that the health of all the people of this country will be protected best if: 1) each locality is permitted to adapt one of several endorsed social-economic-medical procedures to its own local needs; 2) doctors are put in charge of all governmental and corporate medical systems. Greatest desideratum to them is a medical Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet. Great fear is a nonmedical Secretary of Welfare...
...Painter Biddle, in a suit so wrinkled it looked shrunk, warned the audience that the intelligent supervision of the WPA art project which he helped to found would be as precarious as the project itself while it remained an emergency measure. Discussion followed on what has become a great desideratum of politically conscious artists who want better standing than work relief affords-the Federal Arts Bill, a proposal for an arrangement more permanent and dignified than WPA, introduced in Congress last session by Representative John Coffee of Washington. Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists' Union...
...last winter it had long been unanimously conceded by all prizefight experts that Louis would win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fought the current holder, James J. Braddock-who had won it from Louis' predecessor as super-fighter, Max Baer. The desideratum was to heighten not the suspense but the dramatic finality of this achievement by delaying it as long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve...
...first desideratum is to examine more closely the records and capabilities of applicants for admission, to reject those who are unprepared or unfit for advanced work of any sort. The Graduate School today is clogged up with men who have chosen scholarship as an easy way to support themselves, who have no impetus to their work except a professional and economic one, who will reach their intellectual peak when they are given their degree. Naturally, graduate study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more...