Word: merite
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Open to any student in the University or in Radcliffe College and is awarded for merit in the field of American Literature. (The terms of competition are fixed from time to time by the Department of English, with the approval of the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory or his representative.) For this year it is offered for the best essay of from 5000 to 10,000 words on a subject in American Literature. Excellence in form as well as in substance will be required. Theses in college courses and chapters from the ses submitted for the degree of Ph.D...
Other Venice rewards for merit...
...star of a London revue trying hard to further a romance which begins when he keeps Miss Rogers awake and which is impeded only by her stubborn and illogical belief that he is her best friend's husband. Otherwise pleasantly negligible, the narrative has at least the merit of giving a cast of skilled comedians (Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes and Eric Blore) a chance to be amusing when Astaire & Rogers are out of breath...
...peasant can. "It has been said that the prefects think a good deal more about the next Cabinet than about the Cabinet now in power," he tartly observed, "but this has been said wrongly, I feel sure. I have confidence in you. But it is necessary that you merit this confidence! You are representatives of the State and representatives of the departments, but I want you to remember that you are first and foremost representatives of the State. You ought to transmit to the State all information that may be useful to it. You do not do this enough! There...
...Manhattan. Few months ago United Chromium heard that General Motors Corp. was helping itself to the Fink process, indignantly entered suit against GM and two other defendants. They did not deny using the Fink process but argued instead that some details of the Fink process were of dubious merit, that other chromium-platers had preceded Dr. Fink anyway...