Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory in Miami. For unassuming, unspectacular Jim Knight, it was an unaccustomed prominence. He has climbed the hard way, by merit, in a family empire where climbing was scarcely necessary. By disposition, he settled on the business side. "Jack isn't any bookkeeper," he said, "and I've always been sort of a tinker." When Jack Knight bought the Miami Herald in 1937, Tinker Jim went down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street...
...automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June 13 (created by Rojas to commemorate the day he took power in 1953). The next step is up to the Colombia Supreme Court, which is studying the evidence and could add a prison term of up to twelve years...
Brown's program bears inspection by other universities; there, veteran schoolteachers receive fellowships for one-year refresher courses in their subjects, are replaced in their classrooms by graduate interns. The University of Wisconsin will tackle the problem at the core of the merit-pay controversy-how to decide which teachers are most effective. At Duke, graduates of 25 cooperating liberal-arts colleges will study toward master of arts in teaching degrees. Outstanding teachers from local schools will be released from other duties to supervise M.A.T. interns...
...Mexico City's waxworks museum (wearing tweed knickerbockers), along with Emperor Maximilian and Mahatma Gandhi. Author Wolfe's version of Trotsky is itself a kind of waxworks figure (the writing sounds as if Ernest Hemingway were trying to parody Gromyko), but the book has the great merit of pointing to Trotsky's moral dilemma: Would he have used power less ruthlessly than Stalin...
...total in two booklets-and is able to show that they are, at least, highly arguable. Probably no brilliant student will be denied college entrance because he analyzes such questions too keenly, because passing scores are relatively low. But screening in the early stages of the National Merit Scholarship competitions is highly selective, Hoffmann argues, and it is quite possible that sloppily written questions could hamper genuinely brilliant students without disturbing superficial scholars...