Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special merit, the University reserves honorary titles. Thus William A. M. Burden is Honorary Curator of Aviation Literature in Baker Library, while Dard Hunter is Honorary Curator of Paper-Making and Allied Arts...
Since the boys cannot go on camping trips, they earn their merit badges by telling the leaders how to follow a trail, how to build a fire, how to treat blisters, burns and snakebites. Most of them have learned to identify trees and to tell directions in the woods. Although many of the physically handicapped are confined to wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, polio, arthritis or paraplegia, they have proved remarkably adept at mastering certain basic normal skills, e.g., tying knots, which some of the boys can do only by using their teeth. The mentally retarded boys have learned the simpler...
...Benedictine Brother Marinus, 41, of St. Paul's Abbey, Newton, N.J., received the Korean Order of Military Merit Ulchi with Gold Star from the Korean ambassador at a ceremony in Washington, and reminisced about how he won it. Five years ago, as Captain Leonard P. LaRue of the S.S. Meredith Victory, he was freighting supplies to Korea. "The once fine city of Hungnam was gasping in its death throes. Five unshaven Army colonels came aboard. 'Captain, we need your assistance,' one said. 'Thousands of men, women and children are here. We have to get them...
...wrote the Laborite Daily Mirror. "But the leader of a party must be the conductor of a massive orchestra." From the far Tory right came an echoing chorus. Gaitskell, wrote Journalist Randolph Churchill (see PRESS), is "a first-class politician of patriotism and ambition. He has political guts, and merit. Let us salute...
Famed & Obscure. In picking the colleges, the foundation wisely decided to avoid the question of merit. Its list therefore includes every private, four-year institution that emphasizes the liberal arts and sciences and has regional accreditation. Each campus will get a grant that roughly equals last year's payroll for full-time teachers with undergraduate students. The grant must be held intact for ten years, and the interest from it must be used to raise faculty salaries. After ten years the principal of the grant may be spent as the school sees fit. In addition to the $210 million...