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Word: meriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Hardin's conclusion indeed has merit; the Fanchon & Marco poll was taken only at double-feature theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...that the Communists' "advocate class struggle." They do not. They say that the class struggle is a fact and that only the dictatorship of the proletariat can end it. That is not the same thing as what Maurin, says, but it is Marx or Lenin. Maurin has the especial merit of stating a point of view so badly that it stimulates the reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less articulate than he, and the discussion of his essays among imperfectly educated people whose occupations do not allow them time...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...like drawings that were started with one subject in the mind of the artist and finished with an entirely different one. The disdainful remark of "Huh, surrealism!" may be stimulated by Mr. Lougee's work. All these peremptory thoughts are actually unfair, for abstractions of Mr. Lougee's type merit a more mature consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

...curious reputation of 73-year-old Louis Eilshemius, whose painting was first honored by the National Academy of Design in 1892 and has since passed through various degrees of fantasy toward a vanishing point of artistic merit, received the support of a carefully pruned exhibition at the Kleemann Galleries. Billed as "All of Eilshemius," the show covers the years from 1884 to 1909. Some of Eilshemius' "twilight" paintings and landscapes still looked remarkable to connoisseurs last week, as most of his nudes looked incredibly vapid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Galleries | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Merit p. White, research associate in Civil Engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETEEN ARE ADDED TO HARVARD FACULTY | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

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