Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographers and newsmen, she described her joy: "I don't know how it all happened. All I know is that I'm gentille because everyone else is gentil. All those beautiful people. All those beautiful presents. Gentil, so gentil, everyone is gentil, and they say I merit it ... The only one in all the world that I can get angry with is myself-because...
Though Yale continued to grow in size and merit, it sometimes seemed to do so reluctantly. The years of the late 19th Century were boom years for U.S. higher education, when the U.S. university began not only to mirror but to rival the great universities of Europe. It was in the age of the mighty autocrat, Charles Eliot of Harvard, that American scholarship finally came into...
Commissioner McCloy, said aides, was "thunderstruck" and "confounded" by the reprieve. Still in the basement death row of Landsberg prison, the seven would now wait for the federal courts to rule on whether Attorney Magee's argument had merit, a procedure which could take months. But Frau Schmidt, relieved of her death watch in a Landsberg hotel, remarked: "Now we must immediately cancel the coffin and the hearse...
When Juan Perón inaugurated the village, he praised it so highly that tears welled in Evita's eyes. The strapping President stopped his speech to kiss her. "These two tears," he said, "point to the great merit in this work, namely, human emotion." Emotion unquestionably moves Senñra Perón. But it is equally true that ( she is one of the country's biggest property holders, the boss of six Buenos Aires newspapers, the radio station El Mundo, and at least two manufacturing plants. It is commonly believed in Buenos Aires that these properties...
...principle of five-man group tutorial for everyone except honors seniors is fine as a general guide. But the planners of any new system must bear in mind that there are some juniors and seniors who merit individual attention, while there are others who will be comparative misfits. While funds are limited, any program should be flexible enough to drop the dullard and encourage the good student...