Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize essay contest for the best manuscripts on the subject, "American Institutions." The essays may be historical, sociological, legal, or otherwise. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate the study of American institutions and to familiarize Americans with them by essays having literary as well as historical merit. This is the initial year of the contest and it will continue as an annual affair until further notice...
...term "objects of artistic merit" will be used as the basis for choice and in the broad sense in which it was used last year. It includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, textiles, pottery, glassware and bronzes. It is asked that no student hesitate to submit any object which he owns because of its low market value, since the exhibition will be composed of objects of intrinsic art worth, which term very often is in no direct relationship to monetary value...
...Buchner and Peltzer of Germany and Lowe of England. Coach Farrell said. All three have done at least 49 seconds in the event and with Martin of Switzerland and Engdohl of Sweden, present a lineup with great possibilities. America however, is fortified with about ten men of nearly equal merit, but probably led by Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope of Darmouth, and Paulson and Ross of Yale. Borah of Southern California, better known as a furlong runner...
...Dawes said: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the Great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the greatest Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than...
...Forsytes nor the originator of Lorelei Lee will qualify as a genius, although, of course, Mr. Barton, as everyone else, is entitled to a belief that they will. Analysis of the word "genius" would determine to a large degree the number and character of those persons qualified to merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside...