Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During and after World War II, Langer administered research and intelligence work for the government. He received the Medal of Merit in 1946 for his work with serving as Chief of the Research and Analysis Branch...
...that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works on the program (by Beethoven and Haydn) were both transcriptions, and of the contemporary quintets played, only the Hindemith has serious merit, though three short pieces by Ibert offer facile pleasure by their eclectic and clever ideas. The fact that a work is a transcription need not condemn it, however; and the two performed by the Quintet proved to be first Yale. The opening Haydn Divertimento in B flat was especially pleasing...
According to Griswold, "Because there is probably merit in having scholarships as a reward for high academic performance, some scholarships would be awarded to outstanding students in each class independently of the Financial Aid Program...
...itself. It is a regressive tax, falling on the lower and middle income groups, and by cutting the real incomes of these groups it may stifle an already saturated and competitive economy. When first proposed during the Korean War inflation of 1950, a manufacturers' excise tax may have had merit; but in an economy rife with deflationary potentials--high inventories, cut-backs in defense spending, falling farm prices--enactment would be dangerous, unfair and ill-advised...
Soft Wadding. Jacques smiled and refused. For a moment father and son clung to each other, as if too moved to speak. Then the old professor began: "It was very important, very lovely. And I must say that the chief merit of this undertaking goes to my son Jacques. It was he who guided the Trieste." There had been no trouble at all; the Trieste had functioned perfectly. She had snuggled down on the sea bottom (where the pressure was about 500 lbs. per square inch) "as on a soft wadding." The result, said Piccard, "is what he had foreseen...