Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cantor's success proved the merit of a rotating plan devised to lure hesitant, big-name comedians onto television. Since few of the comics are eager for the grueling test of a weekly series, the Colgate Comedy Hour (sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) allows Cantor to alternate with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen and Bobby Clark (Clark, in turn, will alternate with Bob Hope). NBC will use the same technique on a new series starting next month which will star, in rotation, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Jimmy Durante...
...also fought his way across the Pacific, in battles other than theirs. He had been a combat commander (9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division) at Bougainville and Guam, a crack operations officer for the V Amphibious Corps at Iwo Jima. He won the Navy Cross, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit...
Here is a statement on the contradiction between Christianity and Masonry by a Mason who frankly renounced Christianity: "If 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings' (Christianity), then it cannot possibly be true that the All-Seeing Eye 'pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits' (Masonry). One of these declarations excludes the other...
...regretting the influence exercised by the U.S." [TIME, June 12) may easily give a misleading impression to readers not familiar with the circumstances. First, the Union is by no means representative of undergraduate opinion; it speaks only for its own members. Second, voting is affected as much by the merit of speeches as by the merit of motions; it is, after all, a debating club. Third, the oratory of Mr. Randolph Churchill, in marked contrast to that of his distinguished father, has always been a sure vote-loser amongst Oxford audiences. Neglect of these considerations caused widespread American misunderstanding...
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, all officially all-male institutions, have produced many more leaders in all fields than their respective sizes could merit. I say this is due largely to the atmosphere prevailing at these institutions. And a major part of this atmosphere has been the absence of the distracting influences of the co-ed in all phases of the academic life of these institutions. The co-ed, by the very attraction she as a woman holds for the male, cannot help but become an added source of distraction for males students, especially in the Spring when it's hard...