Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...care about the Hound and Horn and at the same time that Harvard could not produce the material that the magazine wanted. The fact that their circulation has been to a large extent outside of Harvard and that practically no unsolicited contributions from students have been sufficiently good to merit publication, combine to prove the truth of this contention beyond a doubt...
...what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a fact which makes their play very similar and renders it impossible to rate one above the other on merit...
...three shipbuilding companies promptly issued denials. Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Ship-building which built the cruiser Northampton launched last week (see col. 2), said Lobbyist Shearer's suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...
...Gallagher is certainly right in the purport of his letter where he claims Pershing was selected on his record. Throughout his wonderful administration as Secretary of War, merit vas the governing principle with Mr. Baker in all his appointments. GEO. VAN HORN MOSELEY...
...promotion was one of merit, prime Hoover administrative policy. In the Department of Commerce, Mr. Young created the present system of enforcing air commerce rules, inspection, license of civil aircraft, licensing of pilots and mechanics. Last week, before his promotion, he announced new, strict rules for transport pilots. After Sept. 1 they must get their licenses renewed every six months. They will get renewals only by reproving their ability at trick takeoffs and landings. They must have flown at least ten hours solo in the types of planes for which they are licensed. And they must be able...