Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke along the Kiwatiians-Elks-Rotarians circuit in more than 500 U.S. cities and towns. He sat on 22 civilian advisory boards and committees for the Government during World War II, earned the Medal for Merit from the Government for his nationwide labor-management cooperation program during the war. Johnston traveled to other parts of the world, toured Russia, became one of the rare U.S. private citizens officially invited to confer with Stalin. It was not long before Eric Johnston was being talked about as a possible Senator, even a possible Republican contender for the presidency...
...great merit was that he gave the U.S. and the world a sense of the enduring strength (ugly or not) of Main Street; and that he made Americans on all main streets, including Babbitt, stop hustling long enough to wonder uneasily where they were going...
General Electric, in a letter to the nation's leading colleges and universities, has stated that it will continue to employ college graduates on their merit, regardless of their draft standing...
...motions by Richard M. Sandler '52, treasurer of the council, passed too: (1) to award "associate membership" certificates and "certificates of merit" for outstanding contributions to council committee work by non-council members; (2) to award the "Richard Glover and Henry Russell Ames Memorial Aids," after a lapse of two years, to "men who exhibit the sterling character and inspiring leadership that were qualities of Richard and Henry Ames," two former council members
...TIME'S Christopher Fry cover story is extravagant and outrageous. The praise that is heaped upon the exuberance of the Fry metaphor is all out of proportion to the dubious merit of the tawdry and self-conscious Shakespearianism of The Lady's Not for Burning . . . ALAN R. TRUSTMAN Cambridge, Mass...