Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yalta and at Potsdam, where he was introduced to President Truman and received an autographed portrait. Allied newsmen remember his great belly laugh and piercing eyes, noted that he carefully concealed a halting knowledge of English. But for his expertness in security the U.S. awarded him the Legion of Merit, the British made him a Knight of the British Empire...
...group oral examination on an ancient or modern historian in the Junior year still remains. It is simply the literary text, examined in the Sophomore year, that has been modified, at least for the time being. Here the text will be a work not only of high literary merit but also of genuine importance in intellectual, cultural or political history. This is a part of our immediate hope of bringing history back a little more into History and Literature. W.J. Bate, Chairman Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
...Order of the British Empire, Luxembourg's Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, Belgium's Order of Leopold, France's Legion of Honor, Italy's Order of Merit, the Vatican's Order of Pius IX, Spain's Order of Isabella the Catholic, Portugal's Order of the Tower and Sword...
...ancient and most famous Kingdoms. You would on this Side of the Sea, enjoy the great Reputation you have acquir'd, pure and free from those little Shades that the Jealousy and Envy of a Man's Countrymen and Cotemporaries are ever endeavouring to cast over living Merit. Here you would know, and enjoy, what Posterity will say of Washington. For a 1000 Leagues have nearly the same Effect with 1000 Years. The feeble Voice of those groveling Passions cannot extend so far either in Time or Distance. At present I enjoy that Pleasure...
...Perhaps Buber's greatest merit is that, almost alone among modern Jewish thinkers, he has returned to the intensely personal dialogue with God that is characteristic of the Old Testament and existed among the sages and rabbis before the Middle Ages. In their writings God often sounds like a member of the family to be submitted to but nonetheless argued with: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," said Job, "but I will maintain mine own ways before...