Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monro also foresaw increased interest in college careers when the secondary schools prod their promising students toward the national recognition of a Merit Scholarship...
Headmasters and principals of the nation's 25,000 secondary schools will soon nominate five percent of their senior classes to compete for 350 National Merit Scholarships, after receiving instructions yesterday from the Ford Foundation, administrator of the scholarships...
This will enable many students to be "identified as scholarship prospects without any cost to themselves," Monro said since many colleges will undoubtedly be interested in the lists of contestants. At any rate, 800 runners-up will receive certificates of merit, in the expectation, that such distinction will enable them to get other scholarships...
...transformed into a woman, then back again. Inexplicable characters dashed in and out of the ballet, including copulating snakes and a tiny girl equipped with brass breastplates, whose face is blue-black on one side, chalk-white on the other. The production's one real merit: the sensuous dancing of dark-haired Violetta Elvin as Tiresias the Woman, and especially the moment when her partner lifts the ballerina and moves her across stage as she takes huge, slow strides as if she were running in a dream landscape...
Birdman of Alcatraz crackles with Author Gaddis' anger at those who helped Robert Stroud set that record. But the book's great merit is that, rather than pity and indignation, it stirs admiration for a fantastic human achievement...