Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sciences. The subjects of the theses must be approved by the chairman of the Division of Philosophy, Professor R. B. Perry. Theses must be handed in at 9 University Hall on or before May 1. The right is reserved to withhold the prize in case no thesis of sufficient merit is submitted...
Georgia O'Keeffe is generally addressed by her last name; her husband is Alfred Stiegiitz who was the first connoisseur to see her paintings ..and the first to discover the merit in them. Georgia O'Keeffe had been brought up in Wisconsin and Virginia, had studied in Manhattan under William Chase, who, as she calmly observes, would immediately perish of bewilderment should he, by an accident, walk .into the room where her paintings are on view. She was teaching drawing to young people in Texas, when she sent two of her charcoal drawings to a girl in New York...
Distance does not lend enchantment to bonds, for Canadian and Newfoundland issues of comparable intrinsic merit sell higher. U. S. bankers, it is true, have come to look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted...
...purpose of this exhibition is to stimulate interest in student collecting. Many of the students have acquired objects of art of considerable merit, and this is an opportunity not only for them to exhibit their own acquisitions but to see what others, having similar interests, have deemed worth owning...
...merit of Protestant churches is their individualism; balancing this merit and springing from it, is the lack of central power, an effective and coherent administrative instrument. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in a sense, supplies this want. Last week, while its representatives were meeting in Cleveland, a measure sponsored by the Federal Council and the Interna-tiona] Council of Religious Education came before the New York State Legislature at Albany. This was a bill of incorporation for the Religious Education Foundation, an organization