Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second six months, the vitamin-fed group pulled ahead. (Conclusion: taking extra vitamins usually shows no results for at least six months.) They had 19% less absenteeism, 27% less turnover (i.e., fewer quit or were fired); they also scored 2.6% higher in the company's merit ratings...
...destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...
...Three Merits. The plan has three considerable merits. The first is that any great power-and particularly the U.S.-can join it without sacrificing any important freedom of action or jeopardizing such security as it may create for itself. A second merit of Dumbarton Oaks is that it sets up machinery of continuous international consultation. The third merit is that the Assembly and (to a lesser extent) the world court are provided with great opportunities, though little power. Through the cumulative force of wise recommendations and the backing of public opinion, the organization and its agencies may gradually influence national...
There were a lot of things to sign-several State Department nominations, some postmasters' appointments, some citations for the Legion of Merit, the bill to extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp. When he got to the bill, Franklin Roosevelt grinned at Bill Hassett, spoke the words that always made his secretary smile back: ".Here's where I make...
Wystan Hugh Auden, tall, towheaded English-born poet (For the Time Being), was chosen by the American Academy of Arts & Letters to receive its quinquennial Award of Merit Medal and $1,000 cash prize. Not given for any one work, the award lauded "the beauty of his poetry the unusually pungent, satirical style...