Word: meritable
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Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after...
...newspapers in Washington none is great. None, perused by a man from Mars, would suggest itself to him as a journal of the Capital of a powerful nation. All are, to a degree, the provincial organs of ;he District of Columbia. And nearer the bottom of the scale of merit than the top is the Post, of which Oswald Garrison Villard once said: "Its chief claim to fame is that Sousa named an excellent march after...
...large & worldly woman, termed "une grosse jemme," the average Frenchman sees small merit. In a small & worldly woman, "tine petite fille," he sees great merit. Fortnight ago French Justice was generous to small Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger ("Miss St. Louis 1923"). She was acquitted at Nice of murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
...American Journal of Cancer (TIME, Jan. 12) was also present. Dr. Wood is one of his country's greatest experimenters in cancer. Francis Patrick Garvan and his Chemical Foundation act upon everything that Dr. Wood says regarding cancer. He said last week that there was no established merit in the Coffey-Humber extract; better leave it alone...
Honored. Martha McChesney Berry, founder of the Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody...