Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number to the President of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union as "crafty old Mrs. Ella Boole." Mrs. Boole is respected and admired by thousands for her statesmanlike leadership and wholehearted devotion to a great cause and the use of such disrespectful terms will only merit the contempt and disgust of decent people for the one who uses...
Socialist Severing soon announced that the Socialist cartoon was not sufficiently "coarse" to merit suppression, opined that the Catholic article was "inspired by purely patriotic motives." He flatly refused to punish either newspaper, rushed the dispute to the German Supreme Court at Leipzig. The Court at once decided that the Socialist Vorwärts must be suspended for five days, pondered whether to suspend the Catholic Volkzeitung...
...country reacted favorably to the President's proposal. "Fair and sound," declared Senator Borah. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, said the plan would test the good faith of the Geneva Conference. Senator Reed, military affairs committee chairman, hoped it would be accepted. Senator King found it had "some merit." In Paris General Pershing called it "fair and just ... a concrete and statesmanlike plan which should receive immediate approval." Sour notes were struck by Tennessee's Senator McKellar ("Nonsense") and Mississippi's Representative Collins ("Silly"). The U. S. Press generally acclaimed it as able." "timely and bold," "sensible," "irrefutable...
...assured that the eggs of these particular birds, because of scientific diet, have special merit in flavor, vitamin content and rejuvenating qualities. With the Democratic Convention only a week off you can see that a general hardship would result if we are prevented from offering these delicious morsels on our menus...
...they print, however, indicates that they neither aspire to be read as is the Saturday Evening Post, nor do they love filler. Admittedly students indulge in literary activities only for their own pleasure, and if in the long month of January the demand which a strict code of literary merit makes upon the undergraduate editors is so great that it destroys their pleasure in their work, and their standing in the College at the same time, then they are right in refusing to hold to such a standard...