Word: meritable
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University Professor I. A. Richards, who conducts Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...
Probably nothing would have given greater shock to well-intentioned Donor Chantrey. He had left the bulk (?105,000) of his estate for "the purchase of works of fine art of the highest merit . . . executed within the shores of Great Britain." Chantrey's will specified that the president and council of the Royal Academy should be the judges of what to buy with the money. In 1897, the Academicians had picked the Tate as just the place for the collection...
Down from the Orbit. They will have to work on a lot more components too, for satellites are still a post-Buck Rogerish shot toward the future. Though bristling with difficulties, they are theoretically feasible enough to merit serious investigation. If they ever do carry U.S. colors into space, they would have their military uses. Even an uninhabited satellite could serve as an observation post. While orbiting over enemy territory, it might watch behind the lines with telescopes and report its observations by television...
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...
...lists were put out by the National Board of Review, one on the basis of "entertainment," the other based on "artistic merit and importance"; one was prepared from The Film Daily's annual poll of some 500 U.S. movie critics and commentators; another was published by the New York Times...