Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casey's play by the Mayor of Boston in the role of dramatic critic. This censorship is not particularly important in itself. Only as it reflects the movement that is prevalent in some parts of the country to impose certain moral standards upon plays, movies, and books, does it merit any wrathful outburst...
Regardless of the essential merit of the Association's proposal, the plan should be condemned at once on the basis of national expediency. In a critical period when labor and capital are attempting to adjust their relations to the exigencies of a new economic condition, every possible stimulus should be given to cooperative activity. In the current situation, it is the province of the government to act as an intermediary between the two opposing forces and to aid them to settle their mutual difficulties on principles of impartial justice...
Milt Green, ineligible last year, has proved his merit as a hurdler, broad jumper, and dash-man, and may do some record-breaking over the hurdles this season...
...could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
...Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...