Word: merite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years. At the date fixed in the advertisements for the receiving of the bids, not one was presented that had merit in the opinion of the then Commission. Thereafter, Mr. Noland, knowing of the desire of the Commission to secure for the State a profit from the sale of the waters, through an experienced handling of the same, secured the co-operation of his friend and former associate in the Poland Spring Water Co., Mr. Leslie R. Rounds, to study the situation and propose a bid for the leasing of the sale of the waters. A bid was finally worked...
...wound up beaming, "I need only add that we propose to make this payment in silver [cries of 'Hear! Hear!']. . . ." Amid further cheering and compliments to President Roosevelt in which M. P.'s of every British party joined the House went home to bed. "The supreme merit of this arrangement," wisely observed the London Times, "is that it is neither default, which was unthinkable, nor payment in full which would have merely left the old dilemma." Specifically Britain, which owed $75,950,000 last week, made a silver token payment worth some $7,200,000 but accepted...
Whereas "Pleasure Cruise" makes few pretensions and succeeds very well, "Gabriel Over the White House" starts with all manner of ambitions and dithers to an ineffectual and sentimental close. Its merit is mainly in its technical and intellectual innovations; its conclusions are barely worth attention...
...last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker Rainey and Budget Director Douglas were to speak at Amherst alumni reunions. Busy Mrs. Roosevelt officiated at two commencements last fortnight, at Malcolm Gordon School (Garrison, N. Y.) and Todhunter in Manhattan where...
...bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal tone must impose. It has, at any rate, begun bravely, and were its book reviews to be elevated to the high level of its featured articles, it would have earned an even clearer title to merit in the rather private field its editors have chosen...