Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily" doubts the statements that students, once they leave the lower division, will forsake books for society. The students realize that they can't afford to. From now on, the basis of grades will be merit, according to the administration, and not the fact that a flunk will mean disqualification. Those days are passed...
...Harvard choral history. The successful performances of a few of the great choral works under Dr. Koussovitsky have finally encouraged the two Cambridge organizations to undertake a concert of their own which should not simply indicate the climax of the season's work, but for its own merit should be counted as one of the year's outstanding musical events in this part of the world...
...south, in Asia and Africa. Of all the great Occidental powers of Europe, the nearest to Africa and to Asia is Italy. . . . "Italy has held a policy of friendship with Austria ever since the World War and will continue to do so. The Hungarians are a strong people, who merit and will be accorded a better destiny. Our relations with Jugoslavia are normal; that is to say, diplomatically correct, but nothing more. Relations with France have improved generally. "To pretend to eternally keep a nation like Germany disarmed is pure illusion, unless one has the objective of preventing by force...
...appears with a welcome frequency. Mr. Durante, in fact, is the only member of a potentially able cast who refuses to be bogged down by the story. All the rest-simply act as if they knew it was lousy, and so why bother trying; "Palooka," accordingly, possesses just enough merit due to Durante's heroic efforts to make it worth seeing...
...reason to suspect the good faith of the NRA. After considerable discussion there was inserted in the code of the motor group a provision to the effect that collective bargaining would not in any way impair the right of the employer to promote or discharge on the basis of merit and efficiency. No sooner had this clause been approved when it was publicly repudiated by the NRA in response to the protests of organized labor. No other industry was later permitted to have a similar clause and for all practical purposes the famous merit clause now has become a dead...