Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cardinal Luque referred to the riot as "those unspeakable happenings that merit all our reprobation because of their seriousness and the notably criminal circumstances surrounding them, and because they symbolize an alarming social disintegration." The church newspaper El Catolicismo was additionally irked that Rojas' son-in-law and No. 1 apologist, Samuel Moreno, should try to laugh off the riot in his newspaper as "trivial and paltry." Said El Catolicismo: "Thousands of witnesses denounce the vengeful spirit in which the riots avenged discourtesy with inhuman cruelty, cowardice [and] a reign of brute force...
Italy's government published its annual honors list, elevated several prominent U.S. citizens to its five-year-old Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Among them: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, named to the order's highest rank, Knight of the Grand Cross; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, made a Commander. Last week Cardinal Spellman also got a U.S. accolade: the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute's Gold Award for 1955, for his "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare...
...West Virginia's little (306 full-time students) Salem College heard at the meeting of fellow presidents one day last summer, the more depressed he became. "For two days," said he, "I listened to reports about trie Ford Foundation and what it expected to do, about the National Merit Scholarship program, the Sears Roebuck scholarship plan and similar ones." Yet for all these benefactions, Salem remained completely ineligible. Reason: like 114 other nontax-supported, liberal arts campuses across the U.S., it is not regionally accredited...
...Harvard political clubs... is beyond all defense or excuse." The meddling in this case was an editorial on Feb. 20 entitled "Mr. Thomson's Tactics." Manahan further states that "If the CRIMSON is to make any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene, a paper of merit, it must leave the path of 'cheap politics' which it has travelled too often in the past." The idea ventured here is a trifle myopic...
...contrast between Fernandel and everything else in The Red Inn makes one uncertain whether it is a comedy or a morality play. The sobriety sometimes seems to call for a conscious moral judgment, but the frivolity of its characters does not merit one. In spite of this ambiguity, there is enough of Fernandel at his best to reward the patient viewer...