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Word: meritable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every one of the points in question can not be taken up here but a few of the more important ones merit analysis. Raising the quality of the tutors is one of the first and most necessary tasks which must be accomplished. Excellent work on the part of a tutor should certainly be counted heavily in his favor when his promotion is considered. It is hardly necessary to state that a personable tutor, one who has the ability to interest his individual pupil, will develop into a more human, more understanding professor, than a young Ph.D. who has advanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITICISMS AND REMEDIES | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

...evidences of a pampered, irresponsible existence. In brief, a reflection of the popular conception of operatic stars. One of the most pleasing phases of the entertainment is the manner in which the star renders the songs which are requisite for the creation of the musical atmosphere. Second in merit stands Francis Compton who depicted with vigor the role of the fatuous finance...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

...humor it tells in simple language its story of the tenements, of a wise-guy radio clerk (James Dunn) and the girl (Sally Ellers) who loves him. Knit closely by the interest created in these characters, and sustained throughout by succeeding moments of tension, "Bad Girl" possesses the signal merit of concentration found wanting in the Vidor productions...

Author: By F. T., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

...This Cabinet aspires to merit the most ample public confidence through the establishment of a régime of strict legality with respect of the law and all guarantees." This included freedom of the press, the lifting of Chile's three month censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Moratorium | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point in the Culbertson "approach-forcing system" is a two-bid to show unusual strength and to signify that partner, regardless of the merit of his own hand, must keep the bidding open. So successful was the Culbertson system when used by average U. S. bridge players that his book outsold the bridge works of Work, Whitehead, Lenz, et al., has now sold 112,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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