Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were often too many of them on a screen. His portraits are just as vital, just as colorful, but since he can only work for an hour and a half at a time, they have the added merit of extreme simplicity...
Last week airmen everywhere, particularly operators of northern mail routes rejoiced at news from Cornell University that Drs. William Chauncey Geer and Merit Scott had perfected for airplane wings "overshoes" which had successfully eluded the grasp of the Ice Ogre...
...before acted upon the American stage it is hard to determine, but it is unfortunately quite easy to see the unfortunate results which have attended this policy during the last few years. It has been difficult, in fact well nigh impossible, to secure from year to year plays of merit which are not beyond the powers of the Club to present or beyond the powers of the audience to understand...
...heels of America's only permanent Shakespeare company come the Stratford Players, with the proud position of representing Shakespeare in his native city, and the prestige that the patronage of the King of England gives to them. "Much Ado About Nothing" is no mean touchstone of their dramatic merit on their first night in a city; and they passed the difficult test with ease. Starless they are not, in spite of the critics' forecasts: rather there is an abundance of actors of outstanding ability, a group that comes somewhere near to the ideal of an all-star cast that...
...hands of men qualified to judge more capably of the qualifications of these prospective Freshmen. Much more than the trial-and-error method which the University of necessity now assumes the new plan will have the benefit of first-hand experience to make the awards on a basis of merit. By its very nature a scholarship is not financial aid alone: It is a monetary reward for merit, distributed to those who most need it. Both of these new rulings by the Scholarship Committee represent a forward step toward a more harmonious meeting ground between the theory of scholarship awards...