Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it sounds egotistic and rather snobbish. . . . My father is Lord Carnock, one of the founders of our entente with France, a friend of King Edward. ... In 1913, I married Victoria Sackville-West, only child of Lord and Lady Sackville of Knole, Kent who has written things of greater merit than anything I have done myself...
Miss Caroline Ford, Radcliffe '35, of Cambridge, has been awarded the Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400 for merit in the field of American Literature for her essay, "The Less Traveled Road, A Study of Robert Frost." It is the first time in several years that the prize has not been awarded to a Harvard contestant. Honorable mention was given to Edwin M. Snell '35 of Grand Rapids, Michigan for an essay, "The Modern Fables of Henry James...
Chemistry, physics, and biology have the merit that their shortcomings are clear-cut, and often even glaring. As the Freshman Committee's report indicates, the quality of the teaching offers here as elsewhere, the greatest room for improvement...
...chief merit of the show is its excellent dancing. The Modern Dancers group, headed by Dorothy Fox and Esther Junger, offers some truly brilliant choreography in the modern tones. The music is good and provides a satisfying rhythmic background. Among the more amusing song-offerings were Eve Arden's rippingly funny take-off on the American Legion, D. A. R. ladies, entitled "Send for the Militia," and Evelyn Dall's striking presentation of "Selling Sex." Avis Andrews' singing of "You Ain't So Hot," is very effective. Jimmy Save, the comic headliner, is well known for his pantomimic nonsense, which...
...fabrications, the mass of Allied propaganda carried the weight of sincerity. "One of the greatest of the qualities which have made the English a great people," says Millis. "is their eminently sane, reasonable, fair-minded inability to conceive that any viewpoint save their own can possibly have the slightest merit...