Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singles are scheduled this year for the first time, battled for four weeks until Jack Lynch, Navy V-12, won the finals. As all proceeds go to the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross there were no cash awards, but the first and second men received certificates of merit from the U.S.L.T.A. As an added inducement this year the loser will pay for the tennis balls unless both players agree otherwise...
...Fleming (who discovered it) and Dr. Florey (who made it tick) have got nothing out of it but praise-doctors generally do not patent drugs. Penicillin will save more lives than war spends, but there has been no military citation. Most tangible recognition so far was the Award of Merit of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association given to Drs. Fleming & Florey last December. Several months ago, a proposal to give Dr. Fleming a grant from the public funds was brought up in Parliament, but nothing came...
With three weeks of intensive practice and coaching by Coach Syd Cabot behind them, the Crimson rugby team proved its merit on the far field at Soldiers Field Saturday by thrashing an experienced Royal Australian Air Force squad by the score of 16 to 4. All the scoring in the game, third of the season and the first to be won, occurred in a reckless second half when Crimsonmen surged over the Aussie goal on four occasions, and brought their total score to 16 points with two conversion kicks...
...merit selection among the Latin American applicants has been especially difficult because of the totally different educational system coupled with inadequate facilities to do any efficient investigation. Dean Williams excepted the Canadian students to this rule, saying they have been well chosen...
Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will...