Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). Though fantastic and melodramatic, The Sea God has the merit of an original idea. "Pink" Barker and one Schultz, rival sea captains of the south seas, wager their ships on the outcome of a race. Daisy, in love with Barker but unwilling to show it until he mends his shiftless ways, stows away with him. Barker's craft is far ahead until he turns back to rescue a demented derelict in an open boat. The derelict dies after telling of a great pearl bed off a nearby island. Because of the rescue Barker loses the race and his ship...
...succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics...
...original and reproductive. Lithographs at that time were the rotogravure supplements of our present-day Sunday newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...
...publication of honors theses of unusual merit and general interest written for the department of English is provided for by a fund donated by the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...Helen Choate Bell prize, awarded for theses of merit in the field of American literature, was won by William E. Wilson 1G, of Evansville, Indiana. The John Osborne Sargent prize, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was won by Roland Marandin Minns '31, Davison scholar of Surrey, England. The selection for 1929-1930 was the fifth ode of the third book of Horace...