Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priest, as well as that of other churchmen who have joined the civil rights cause in Alabama in recent weeks, remained a problem. Obviously, many were drawn there by the conviction that their consciences and their sense of Christian duty demanded no less. Others were there simply to win merit badges, still others to test their own personal commitments in the crucible of violence. Some had come be cause, as Wilson Baker said, they felt that "someone else must die in Selma to bring this movement to its climax...
...Marbury was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1921 and from Harvard Law School in 1924. Since 1931, he has been a member of the Baltimore law firm of Piper & Marbury. He received the U.S. Medal of Merit in 1945, for wartime service in the War Department...
...around for two years before he could pick up his appointment to the class of 1933 at Annapolis. He was a Navy pilot at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck, came out of the war an authentic hero with a boxful of medals, including the Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Silver Star...
...second most desirable colleges in the U.S. are Harvard and Radcliffe, says the top 8% of 1,500,000 high school entrants in the National Merit Scholarship competition. So who's on first - and so on down to tenth? The bright kids' picking order, according to a three-year survey...
...course to get the magazines to the readers as fast as possible. We have been quite pleased with the results and so, it turns out, has the U.S. Post Office Department. Last week Postmaster General John A. Gronouski presented to Time Inc. the department's first Special Merit Award for outstanding cooperation in furthering the ZIP code...