Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtless return to its former rule of accepting administrative tribunals' findings of fact as final. Now, in lieu of this probability are the demands of Lord Hewart, James Beck, et alia, that administrative tribunals be kept under close scrutiny, both as to membership and as to decisions, entirely without merit? Victor H. Kramer...
...surplus of gasoline, helps to make profits for manufacturers of tires and many another accessory. For all these things the Administration is thankful. Some of its gratitude was publicly acknowledged last month when the automobile code came up for renewal. Motormen were determined to continue the merit clause in the labor section. Although the Administration regretted having allowed that section to slip into the original code, General Johnson and the President quietly accepted a renewal of a provision which no other industry has succeeded in wangling for itself...
...broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses of a kind of writing different from any that he has ever done. Mr. MacKenzie does the other kind, often; perhaps Mr. Fitzgerald will do it some day, also...
...expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty-one will tend to follow their example. In this manner beer will divide the houses, and in so dividing them it will assume a vast and obvious importance to which its own merit would never entitle...
Since calibre of adventure rather than fluidity of style has been the criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies...