Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's greatest merit is its memorable types: the inarticulate young girl whose frozen, dangerous fear seems to choke her like a stone lodged in the throat; the nurse whose own mind has worked loose in the buffeting, jarring atmosphere of the asylum and who now wanders through her ward, forlornly keeping imaginary records...
...Note of Hope. Snake Pit's merit as a movie may be generally acknowledged; its value as an enlightening document may be questioned. Some hard-to-please movie critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients...
Fourteen Harvard professor received recognition for their war services in a joint Army-Navy ceremony yesterday at New Lecture Hall. They were among the 86 Greater Boston men who were honored with the Certificate of Merit from the Defense Department. Varied fields of work, ranging from medical research to economics were represented among the men who received the honors...
...University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation for the Legion of Merit says that he saved the Government "billions." Says Smith: "I honestly think it's a misprint." He now commutes to Philadelphia from his 60-acre farm, likes to ride horseback and sail his 45-ft. yawl Cherry Blossom...
This weekend in all the House Dining Halls and the Union, members of the wrestling team circulated petitions asking major sport status and a Jayvee team for wrestling. Their case has definite merit...