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Word: meriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month's eleven, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...correspondents of the New York Daily News, John O'Donnell & Doris Fleeson, who often produce scoops from Administration sources, announced that Franklin Roosevelt had decided that: 1) there is merit in employers' plaints that the Wagner Act is cruelly prejudicial to them; 2) Congress should do something about it. As a first step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NLRB Triumphant | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Compiled by Teachers Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux of Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, Never to Die owes its material to the labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Utterances that are Strange | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: TAC | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...seven average and better than average mystery stories published last month, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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