Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sherwood, Oregon, has been awarded a fellowship by the American-German Student Exchange for a year of advanced study in the Fine Arts, at a German university. This fellowship is given under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, and is awarded on the basis of distinctive merit in some particular field...
...success and merit of the present day American theatre is due strangely enough to the influence of the Irish stage," declared Lennox Robinson, director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in an interview last night. Mr. Robinson is making a tour of the United States with the entire company of the Abbey Theatre, and is now engaged for two weeks in Boston, giving a large repertoire of pieces including the works of Synge, Yeats, and Lady Gregory...
...signature President Hoover last week made law an immigration act excluding all alien instrumental musicians from the U. S. as "artists," unless they were of "distinguished merit and ability...
Many people suffering from paranoia, and foolish delusions of persecution frequently appeal to the students. Women appear who think they have a claim against every one. When the claim against every one. When the Bureau found no merit in the case of a woman sueding for an infringement of copyright, the woman tried to sue the Bureau for stealing a poem of her's entitled "Come, Across, Come, Come." Another case of a clergyman who imagined he had been imprisoned in an asylum because he was going to write a book condemning a higher ecclesiastic also reached the Bureau...
...wrote some 600 hymns in all, has 53 in the pres-ent book, of which 14 have tentatively been rejected and nine challenged. John Wesley's 19 hymns are to be reduced by six or seven. Several hundred other hymns are too antiquated, sentimental or infrequently sung to merit retention. But no old favorite, like "Reck of Ages" or "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" is to be dropped...