Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practically all of the graduate schools have their museums, and those at the Medical and Dental schools merit much investigation...
AMERICAN STUFF-An Anthology-Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp...
...Great Depression of 1929 caused men to doubt the merit of all Andrew Mellon's fiscal works and most of all his tax policy in which the reduction of high surtaxes on big incomes was a prime tenet. To the Mellon mind taxation was simply a device for raising revenue. As a businessman he knew it unwise to charge more than the traffic would bear and it was his theory that high surtaxes reduce revenue by driving capital to take refuge in tax-exempt bonds and other devices for avoiding taxes...
Last week, without challenging the merit of SEC's efforts to purify the issuance of new securities, the New York Stock Exchange, which has never openly attacked SEC, and Charles R. Gay (called the Exchange's "New Deal" president) broadly and frankly questioned the results of SEC's regulation of securities exchanges...
What critics chiefly noted, aside from, an extremely wide range of merit, was a truce in the bitter factionalism which has characterized Chicago art since modernism first burst upon it in 1913. No one was heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club...