Word: merite
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...later he was named a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. During World War II, he was a major in the Medical Corps and was chief of neuropsychiatric service at the Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, W. Va. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service...
California's Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown has served his cataclysmic state for eight years with enough success to merit re-election. Under his Master Plan for Higher Education, new, experimental public and private colleges have sprung up throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...
Within a few weeks the Masters will decide whether or not to endorse the changes in parietal rules recommended by the Harvard Undergraduate Council. The proposals have considerable merit for the simple reason that they enhance the convenience of living in the Houses, without threatening any radical changes in the character of the House system...
...being emetic rather than tragically cathartic. Intellectually, he appears to embrace the fallacy of universal guilt. The words Jew and German are never once uttered in The Investigation. Ironically, this depersonalization is not unrelated to the dehumanization that made the whole merciless horror possible. As the victims, the Jews merit the epitaph of being named. As the perpetrators of the crime, the Germans deserve to be indicted...
...Merit Alone. Some of the nation's best colleges offer the most help. Yale's Dean of Admissions Russell Inslee Clark boasts that Yale found money this fall for every student who had passed its admissions screening and needed it. Half of the freshman class is sharing in $960,000 of financial aid-$715,000 of that in direct scholarships. One third of Harvard undergraduates draw from the $2,300,000 given yearly in scholarships, and outside scholarships total another $500,000. Harvard also arranges for $750,000 a year in 3% loans, which are repayable after graduation...