Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Paul Magloire, Haiti's burly, beaming Chief of State, last week welcomed some new foreign friends to his capital and sent some old domestic enemies on their travels. In Port-au-Prince one morning, he draped the Haitian Order of Honor and Merit around the neck of Edward G. Miller Jr., chief of the U.S. State Department's Latin American affairs section under the Truman Administration. At noon the same day he welcomed to Haiti Sir Hugh Foot, K.C.V.O., Governor of Jamaica, and Lady Foot...
Either a college degree or comparable professional and academic experience can be offered as a sufficient prerequisite for the program. Officials also said a number of fellowships will be awarded on the basis of merit and financial need...
...reports on the manuscripts that have been submitted. Before considering a book for publication, the Syndics have the opinions of at least two readers-often research fellows or graduate editors. If the book gets by their scrutiny, the syndic in whose special field the book lies reports on its merit and the discussion begins. If one member is opposed to the book, thinking that it does not measure up to the Press's standards, he challenges it, and the Syndics then examine the book quite closely. There is usually unanimity of opinion by the time they have thrashed...
...appoint a committee to study school costs, as you stated. The committee (School Survey Commission) was appointed by the Legislative Council, and it recommended, among other things, that teachers be paid on a merit basis and that all school districts be subject to the regulations of the State Textbook Commission. You imply that I brought these matters before the Legislature as outlandish proposals...
...Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. last week by U.S. baseball writers. No. 71 was a jaunty character whose death, a fortnight ago, gave the writers a sentimental additional reason for voting for him. No. 72 was a steady performer, long overdue, who made it on popularity and merit. No. 73, an irascible immortal who never bothered, as player and manager, to conceal his dislike for baseball writers, finally made the grade in spite of himself...