Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pertinent to refer back to the original thesis to evaluate the relative merit of the subsequent remarks. It was not the desirability of communism for India, that I contested Nor did I offer a brief for jingo nationalism. My opponent's vexation, therefore, at my inability to understand communism "in spite of his efforts," is unwarranted. I contended that imminent triumph of communism in India as envisaged by him was not likely, that the abandonment of Gandhi's methods and introduction of communism "at this juncture" may mean a serious calamity for India. I search in vain in his latest...
...extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Lowell-Eliot binary. The choice of such a man is thoroughly in accord with policies and spirit of the University, which has selected its presidents heretofore with such a successful eye for merit...
Several competent musicians admit its merit...
Evidently planned to cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...
...ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become a public charge, the Government would help him-but no other...