Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
...sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years.) And it attacked the seniority system (which is vociferously backed by teacher groups) by putting all promotions after six years of teaching on a merit basis. Said Dewey's committee: "For too long, promotion from beginning pay to maximum pay has been automatic...
Some measure of uniformity is obtained in large courses such as Government 1, where the section men meet and decide what material should be contained in a blue book in order for it to merit a given mark. This is only the beginning of the coordination that is required if marks are to be more than a rather arbitrary estimate. Intra-departmental conferences can set roughly approximate levels of work which would yield equivalent grades on the final examinations in the various courses within the department. The conferences should extend beyond departmental bounds to insure a degree of standardization...
...Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...poetry and his harsh, thick, color-encrusted paintings, broken-like leaded windows-into black-bordered stabs of color, which he sometimes waits years to complete. He is bad tempered-and painfully shy. "I believe in suffering," he once wrote; "with me it is not feigned; that is my only merit...