Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
Prior to Japan's "punitive expedition" onto the mainland, the American public was of one mind that it should remain fervently isolated from the outside world. It thought, and still thinks, that no one spot of foreign soil is of sufficient importance to this country to merit our protection on purely economic grounds. It thought, and still thinks, that citizens venturing into a war zone once of the "Panay" and the Standard Oil vessels on the Yangtse was an exception to acknowledged policy, and while the myopic shortcomings of Japanese aviators are to be regretted, nothing can be done...
These were high water marks in the most drastic reorganization the British Army has seen for generations, a reorganization that proposed almost complete substitution by advancement by merit instead of by seniority, a new Army Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...
...conclude, while these editorials have built up and torn down many hypotheses before judging Nieman Fellowships the best alternative, it must be remembered that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously...
...same reason Eastman chose the name Kodak). From a tiny office in Manhattan, Zeus Corp. six weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful that what you see is in the filter...