Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first recipient of the Harvard Athletic Association special merit medal is to be awarded to E. L. Farrell, University track coach, according to a statement made at the H. A. A. offices last night. The special merit medal, a form of award created last spring, is intended to be given in recognition of a specially meritorious service to the Athletic Association in cases where some other award such as a letter or other insignia cannot properly be made. The award of this medal has never yet been made...
...that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price of the two airships, or $5,450,000 as the price of one. The Navy board gave this design a figure of merit...
...succeeded in maintaining as has Augustus John, a triple allegiance with fashionable public, ultra-modernists and academicians. It is undeniable that no U. S. artist is included among the world's most popular portrait painters. Thirty years ago, Eastman Johnson and Daniel Huntington, painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native...
...forces of conciliation won? Secretary Turati decided that if they had, he would sour the wine of their victory. He published an edict prohibiting all imported (therefore, French) wines at Fascist dinners or militia messes. As everyone knows, most Italian wines are totally without merit...
...Gauducheau was clapped, cheered and feted, at Paris, by 150 gourmets banqueting under the auspices of La Societe d'Acclimatisation (French National Society of Acclimatization). This august body, unique, is devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces was assured that his name will live with that of Marie Harel, immortal creator of fromage camembert, to whom a monument was recently erected and dedicated by onetime President Alexandre Millerand (TIME, April 23). Modest Culinary Immortal Dr. Gauducheau then explained...