Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Day Committee, however, the possibility of at least one member from each House has merit. Unlike the Permanent Committee, the Class Day group must work closely with the Houses in planning Senior Week. Wide distribution would permit each member to smooth out administrative details with his own House, and sample attitudes toward Class Day plans...
...USSR will show definite indications of good faith on these issues, the new proposal holds the possibility for actual disarmament gains. But the United States must not be so anxious to find merit in the Soviet plan that it becomes tangled in a web of fruitless argument and delay. Should this happen the hopeful steps made with the "atoms for peace" program will be lost in the storms of debate...
...Production Manager Allan Woods, 41; Circulation Manager Jack Mullen, 43) get the same salary. Since 85% of its circulation is home-delivered, Newsday has one of the largest forces of carrier boys (3,000) in the U.S. The paper paternally treats the most enterprising ones royally to new bikes, merit badges, T-shirts (emblazoned with the gold Pulitzer Prize emblem). On rainy days many a carrier in a well-heeled family enlists the aid of his mother, and as a result, Newsday is often delivered in station wagons and Cadillac convertibles. The paper sends some of the boys to summer...
...London Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (a kind of junior relative and farm club of the famed old company) went on strike for higher pay, canceling the company's two-week London run this month. Management came through with "merit raises" from $2.80 to $5.60 weekly, which puts the average corps member in a slightly better financial position than bus conductors and typists (about $20 weekly) but not quite up to the average of a West End chorine (about...
...Luxembourg Gardens with its baby carriages are part of Europe's. Most of Washington's open-air sculptures, such as Begni del Piatta's baroque memorial on the Potomac (opposite), are just handsome. A handful, such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens' quiet Grief (p. 72), merit long study. What Saint-Gaudens meant to express, according to recent research, was not grief at all but "the intellectual acceptance of the inevitable." The capital as a whole attests the fact that Washington, L'Enfant, and a host of later men foresaw the inevitable greatness of the U.S., accepted...