Word: meritable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth. But it is notable that precisely never does either of them come out and annihilate a book that has been given a fat advertising appropriation by its publishers. The discrimination and intellectual honesty...
...paid positions. To lay down a smoke screen of cloudy accusations about Mr. Farley does not obscure the President's good faith. The rapid expansion of government functions, which took place when the recovery agencies were formed, made it impossible to bring the new positions under the examination and merit system. But the less spectacular branches, forestry bureau, consular and diplomatic corps, and the like, have taken notable strides. Finally, the new regulation for the Post Office will bring that bureau to greater heights of efficiency...
...Diego, Calif, last week, on his first long vacation in 46 years, onetime Headmaster Taft kept busy by writing articles on the Civil Service and the Merit System, his old-age hobby. Recently a secretary at Massachusetts' Worcester Academy heard that he was "leaving Taft." hopefully sent him a pupil's application blank. Horace Dutton Taft gravely filled it out, gave his age as 74, replied that he "enjoyed reading very much," chuckling sent the blank back to Worcester...
...general calibre of the introductory courses offered in the College was found to have gone up, wide differences of merit between individual courses having been eradicated in many cases...
Some years ago the publication of the "iBlackbirds Album" was considered TIMEworthy. Two weeks ago was published the "Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album," worthier in historical importance, in artistic merit and, in view of the renascence of jazz, in fad value...