Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the very beginning, the project was sloppily handled. Of the three men who submitted the report, two were directors of agencies and thus incapable of conducting and objective study. While the practice of having members of the group being investigated represented on the investigating body may have some merit, it is a decidedly poor practice to give them a majority...
...Considering the number of agencies concerned with housing problems, each exercising different methods of control, it seems that a central registry would have great merit," Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, pointed...
...commit ourselves definitely," commented Frederic G. Fassett, Jr., Dean of Residence at M.I.T. The Off Campus Housing Bureau, which operates a listing service of available housing for Tech students, will not give up its functions in favor of a central agency until the new group can prove its merit, he explained...
Bill plans a career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
...nation's population. I would even wager that at no CSS college do as many as half of the dollars spent for scholarships go to students from the neediest half of our population." And this despite the financial aid revolution of determining stipends by need rather than merit...