Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. Benito Mussolini, 54, Premier of Italy, and his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany; first two decorations as Knight Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of the German Eagle...
...employed in the two laboratories, the five aero-motor factories and the four principal aircraft factories. . . . Annual production of fully equipped airplanes is of the order of 5,000. . . . The technique is not very modern but it is to the point. The works directors are engineers of incontestable merit...
...this plan is examined with a little more care than in usually employed by collegians in the heat of a new idea, its practical merit quickly falls away leaving only a this shell of theatrics. For those who want to utilize their money in saving life and salving pain, there are many ways in which $1500 could be used much more economically. In the fist place, it could be turned over to the Red Cross and other veteran organizations now at work for both sides in Spain and who could put the money to its most efficient use. Or better...
...Miracle of England" is no great contribution to literature or history as such, but it is a pleasing mingling of the two which makes it valuable. Behind the chronicle of events which of necessity makes up the backbone of a history, lies the real merit of the book. This is its presentation of life and the excellence of its style. For these, it deserves its place in the American as well as the English library. J.G.B...
Shall We Dance? (RKO). Since any picture concerning Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is largely an excuse for them to dance together, one gauge of such a picture's merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...