Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this liberalization of policy, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa escaped once and for all the possibility of becoming merely one of many undergraduate social clubs. It made itself definitely free to choose its members on merit, and to devote itself singly to the purpose of scholarship...
...present exhibition, which seems doomed to be the last, is regarded, from a cultural point of view as one of the best ever staged. Particularly interesting is an original El Greco never before publicly shown. Other appealing exhibits of merit are works by O'Keefe, Picasso, Bauer, Gaugain and Brancusi. The only tangible steps to insure survival of the organization are a rapid increase in membership or other subscriptions, the director stated. Student membership in the society entails annual dues of two dollars
...Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit of the Imperial Aviation Association. Unforgiven, Hinkler & plane were held at Fortaleza while fellow Britons appealed to the Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro...
...idea prevalent that the natives of modern Iceland have degenerated in strength and culture the lecturer showed to be false. Anthropologists have proved that Icelanders of today are of greater stature than their ancestors, and their literary efforts are also of great merit. He remarked that the collection of 17th and 18th century Icelandic literature is the most complete collection of a foreign language in Widener Library...
...welfare of the cinema industry. Dissenters regard it as a company union since producers used it two years ago as a weapon to defeat Equity's attempt to organize cinemactors. Annually, each of the five Academy branches selects five nominees in its own branch for an award of merit. The five highest nominations are then submitted for balloting to the entire membership. The winners get gold-washed statuettes of a nude young...