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Word: meritable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here were some stiff and dingy daguerreotypes, some stereopticon pictures from old Bowery peep prints," and shows, in old particular a theatrical few prints by "cabinet a man who could hold his head up with any Photosecessionist, whose prints were not only of considerable artistic merit but invaluable historic documents: Brady, the Civil War photographer. Mathew B. Brady (he did not know what the B. stood for) was born in upper New York in about 1823. As a young man he met Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an able painter best known as the in ventor of the telegraph. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Painters | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...fashion without any undue obeisance to the hallowed anachronisms which characterized early Christian institutions, to say nothing of its latter day successors. Institutional religion (which, I fear me, Cuthbert confuses with Religion) has been subject to trial and error and the absurd circumlocutions of the early church fathers justly merit amusement for their logic as well as veneration for their audacity. I suggest that if liberality of approach be too much for Cuthbert he might strike his tents from the pleasances of Cambridge and set them up in Bob Jones College, Florida, the last stronghold of fundamentalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or Try Dayton, Tennessee | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...university museum. Students going in and out daily would come to know one object as they would not be able to otherwise. They would be able to prove by the test of time the validity of their own reactions. The idea might be extended so that objects of unusual merit could be borrowed from other museums throughout the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARITY IN THE FOGG | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...think this idea has any merit at all, you might pass it along with your comment to the cheer leaders. Arthur Broustein '24. Baltimore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Pass it Along | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...Star Witness", one half the bill which is being shown at the University, is a film which owes its merit to the sincerity of the acting, rather than to any excellences of plot. It is the story of a family who became enmeshed in the toils of a gang because they have been the only witnesses to a murder committed in front of their home...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: "THE STAR WITNESS" | 10/20/1931 | See Source »

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