Word: merited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artistic merit of the picture lies in its ability to make an ungarnished section of humanity glow with a composite heroism. Rhythm seems to be the secret of its intensity...
...holders of degrees three $200 prizes are offered for essays of high merit. belonging to any of the following fields: Philosophy and Education, Biology, Geology. Anthropology, Forestry, and Foreign Languages and Literature. Candidates may select their own topics which must be approved in advance by, the committee. Doctoral theses of not more that 15000 words will be accepted...
...last night the Harvard Dramatic Club is going to revive interest in play-writing at Harvard by organizing a group of men interested in this work in meet at regular intervals to discuss problems of dramatic writing and to write plays for production by the club or, it they merit it, for submission to Broadway producers...
Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
...following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME'S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶ Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season...