Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While this idea is almost revolutionary for American colleges, we think it has some merit. Ordinarily, a student following a regular schedule will study three, four, and sometimes five subjects, each foreign to the other. For example a student may be pursuing at one time courses in English, history, a foreign language and political science. The student will undoubtedly favor one or two of the courses over the others and as a result allow the others to go by the board...
...picture, look up at the doll on the screen and say to themselves: 'What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which Husband MacArthur wrote for her cinema...
...When Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned (TIME, Dec. 2), more than Longone's taste was questioned. Longone claimed that Papi was either unable or unwilling to conduct La Fiamma, that he was prejudiced against U. S. singers. Papi retaliated with the blazing charge that Longone permitted singers of indifferent merit to buy their way into his opera...
Maurois considers Kipling "the greatest writer of our time and one of the greatest of any time," but offers little evidence to support his view. Kipling's merit in Maurois' eyes is that he championed an heroic conception of life from the time, as a 21-year-old newspaper man in India, he published his first works, celebrating the stiff-upper-lip theory of the Englishman's duty to the Empire. Born only eight years after the Bengal Mutiny of 1857, Kipling lived in a period when English control of India was seriously threatened. Sent to England...
...There is no merit in the fact that I forgive this girl. How could a Christian do otherwise? Forgiveness is as natural as the sunrise, or the smile of a little child...