Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having studied the various aid-to-education plans of its sister corporations, B. F. Goodrich Co. concocted a recipe of its own. Each year it will spend some $300,000 to pay for 1) seven four-year scholarships for bright high-school graduates selected by the National Merit Scholarship Foundation, 2) 50% of the tuition and laboratory fees of any employee taking a course related to his job, and 3) matching gifts of up to $500 that employees may make to any school. Any campus (public or private) with a Goodrich scholar will get a gift equal to the student...
Cried Nobel Prizewinner Francois Mauriac of Sagan's talents: "The literary merit burst forth from the very first page and is indisputable." Others hailed her as a new star of letters. But not all were favorable; Paris divided between the pro-or anti-Sagan factions, and the critics honed their pens in anticipation of Author Sagan's second book. Would it prove her a writer or just another hot flash...
...remedy the situation, Schaefer proposed a screening procedure "by which those few petitions which have merit can be separated from the others." Initial screening could be made by the district courts, he said, and further proceedings by statutory three-judge federal courts...
...Sanders and Fogg Court to excellent advantage, but have taken over the House Dining Halls and antiquated Agassiz Theatre to produce drama that is not only exciting but also of an unusually high quality. Last weekend for instance, four different College groups put on shows of almost equal artistic merit, varying from the definitely "off-beat" Sartre to the imposing presentation of Sophocles in the original Greek...
...entire cast of Twelfth Night is so well rehearsed that it may have lost some of its original enthusiasm, and the tricks of a professional polish sometimes catch it up in itself. The freshman group's first effort has merit however, when it's kept fresh...