Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (given to a painter only once every five years) to the disarmingly realistic...
Another of his responsibilities is the corps of resident TIME subscription representatives and dealers. He sees that they are kept fully informed about our policies and development for, as most of you know, TIME is and always has been sold on its editorial merit-without benefit of dictionaries, sets of china, and other inducements. Fran Pratt feels that nobody should be persuaded to subscribe to TIME unless he really wants to read...
...Broadway could look back with greater pride on 1946-47 than on any other season since Pearl Harbor. There was no call to use the fancier adjectives; no forgetting a long procession of triteness and trash. But beyond a discernible increase in merit, there was a distinct effect of movement-of a theater aiming to get places, and not just by the same old routes...
...Merit was winning recognition all over the place. Henry Ford II got the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Award for industrial statesmanship. John D. Rockefeller Jr. got the New York City Welfare Council's annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and C.I.O. President Phil Murray got Medals for Merit for their war work. And Harvard's President James B. Conant was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Illinois. Bernard Baruch passed the entire week without getting an award of any sort. Ethel Barry more still hard...
...years of pinning posies on U.S. men of news and men of letters, the Pulitzer Prize Committee has never managed to please everybody. Typical complaints: the committee picks the obvious winners, it plays favorites, it confuses notoriety with merit. Usually the grumbling about the journalistic awards is confined to the city rooms; last week, in the Cowles Brothers' Minneapolis Tribune, it was right out on the editorial page for everybody...