Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to New York, window-shopped in Jacksonville, then set out for Tallahassee in his black Cadillac. During the two-hour ride he framed a speech for the next day, made a decision on the appointment of a new sheriff, signed papers and discussed an upcoming meeting of the Merit System Council (he is trying to give more than 5,000 state employees civil-service protection). Halfway home, he asked the driver to stop at a roadside lunch stand. Roy (as the proprietor addressed him) gulped his coffee fast, wandered out and down the street. His driver, used...
...decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits his hand, the common adulterer his head, but the higher spheres of society, where speculation and vice are practiced on an impressive scale, live their lives in their own way with complete immunity from censure or sanctions. In a recent case, indeed, a respectable member...
...psychology, his own fiction changed immensely. "My first three novels were realistic and conventional," he says. "But after the war and after reading in psychology, I felt that everything was too much on the surface." He feels that if his later novels such as Night Journey have any merit, an interest in hidden motivations should get a large part of the credit...
...giving to institutions of merit funds which will allow them to do what they want to do," Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, Foundation trustee and President of the Board of Overseers said yesterday, "not what some bureaucrat in a foundation or some board of trustees of a foundation assigns to them as tasks...
Eventually, other minor sports may follow the lead of soccer and apply for major recognition, but first they must desire it, then they must apply for it, and above all, they must merit...