Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This ruling effectively climinates the security of tenure, the knowledge that promotion comes through merit and dismissal comes only when deserved. Because salaries are low, security is one of the few attractions of government service. Without it, fewer able men will choose Federal employment instead of higher paying private jobs. Such a trend is illustrated by a recent decline of over 50 percent in the number of students taking the Junior Management Assistantship examinations...
...good life the spirit must have; for devoid of it, the imagination is without moral perspective, conduct without guiding principles, and action without trustworthy habits . . ." Says Ten Hoor: "He who is not educated for privacy is hardly fit to educate others . . . Without education for privacy, he will neither merit leadership nor learn to recognize it in others . . . That, according to my exegesis, is in this connection the meaning of the Biblical text: Tor what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...
...were a brilliant tapestry design done by Jean Picart le Doux and an expertly drawn Quartet of musicians by Hilaire Camille. There was also some plain trash. The trashiest: two heavyhanded pieces of political propaganda by Communist Painter André Fougeron. One, called Atlantic Civilization, had all the artistic merit of a low-class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon...
...scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent," and 2) AD-X2 is "without merit...
...sherry, Ike and Mamie emerged from the forbidding mansion to plant two ceremonial maple trees on the frozen lawn. That night, at a glittering, full-dress state dinner, the President was toasted and in turn proposed the toast to the Queen. The President wore the British Order of Merit, awarded him by the late King George...