Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize it. This being the case, a thorough job should be done now, and a sound course chartered for future action. The undergraduate agencies, which heretofore have proved a failure in general should be eliminated. Solicitation should be placed on a fair and aboveboard basis through selection based on merit and financial need. And finally, official solicitors should be identified with unmistakable insignia, and the soliciting nuisance kept in hand as much as possible through a reasonable limitation on time for laundry and pressing sales...
...past three years Soviet medical men and associates have been paid according to merit. The merit system will continue, and a doctor on a hospital staff will earn $300 to $525 monthly; heads of hospitals will receive up to $650. Village doctors will earn $300 to $350 per month, dentists $200 to $300, pharmacists $260 to $350, wages which in most cases are higher than the net earnings of most U. S. doctors, dentists and pharmacists...
Childe Hassam, to whom went the Saltus Medal of Merit, only N. A. prize to be awarded regardless of nationality, age, sex, or subject matter, for that old post-impressionist's landscape Evening, Point Alien...
...assured of further instruction if he so desired. The limiting of the labors of the overworked instructors would be brought about in a fair manner both to the student and to the instructor, and the student who desires advanced instruction in composition could assure himself of it through merit rather than leaving the matter to chance and, perhaps, acquaintance with the instructor...
...Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would be to proclaim deep-dimpled, wavy-haired Habsburg Archduke Otto as His Apostolic Majesty in Vienna...