Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Ministry's arguments attempt to justify preaching as a legitimate part of education and religious counseling as a legitimate part of advising, but they miss the point. Their first recommendation opposes Harvard's policy of hiring instructors on the basis of merit only. Their second recommendation, by proposing what amounts to a sales campaign for religion, opposes the Harvard policy of letting students decide for themselves such matters as religious convictions. In both cases we hope that the University will not change its policy...
Fustilarian was the word used by Falstaff to describe Hostess Quickly. It is "a comic formation based on fustilugs, and fustiluggery itself refers to fat and frowsiness, usually feminine. Fustilug [and] fus-tilarian certainly merit rediscovery . . . for application to a gross virago...
...stations will probably be rushed by procrastinators, just getting in under the deadline, Brakes, lights, windshield wipers, and signal lights all have to be in good shape to merit the black, April, 1951, stamp...
Kathleen Winsor's "Forever Amber" ("Banned in Boston, but in this case, that didn't guarantee merit...
Squinting through horn-rimmed glasses with the air of a frightened and maligned owl, Young took the stand to deny all. He complained that he had done nothing to merit the Senators' charges, that as a result of what the committee had said, the press was distorting his private life into "a Roman holiday to amuse the readers." His troubles, sighed Young, stemmed only from the fact that "I was born in Missouri and I know certain people from my home state...