Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westminster Abbey, was cited by the Vatican (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great), once headed the Yale University Catholic center and chapel fund-raising committee. In 1947 President Truman awarded him the President's Certificate of Merit, and in 1952 Queen Elizabeth II made him honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire...
...film then gains its merit from sheer movement and color and makes its myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted...
...findings of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for 1956, he stated, show that in those Southern states with segregated schools, not a single Negro child was among the scholarship winners. "I cannot believe," he said, "that there is no child of potential talent among the 10,000,000 Negro children of the South...
Physical facilities of some of these schools--Agassiz and Peabody, for example--are more than adequate. The main complaints of these graduate students concern the calibre of teaching. "What can you expect when appointments are made arbitrarily instead of by merit?" one father in GSAS demanded...
...only merit I think the device has is that it makes narration easier. You can take your hero and see him as a reaction towards certain stimuli, and then by reminiscence--better term--you gradually learn why he has this behavior pattern. It makes for considerable vividness in narrative. It's a very dangerous device, though; if it doesn't all go together in one piece, it's the most awkward thing you possibly could...