Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saltonstall's War Memorial Committee has considered a flock of large scale plans for a commemoration of the University's World War II dead. They have included a $500,000 scholarship fund, a new medical center, and a $2,500,000 activities center. These were all projects of recognized merit. But now the Committee apparently has scrapped them for all time. Instead it has urged alumni to buy a $50,000 plaque in Memorial Church, and as far as a memorial goes, to call...
...problem such as this was surely met many times during the war by the various commanding officers in every branch of the service, and the problem of Mr. Haines' general is, in itself, though compelling, not sufficient reason to make this a recommended play. The real merit of the script lies in the addition of several 'complications' to the basic plot, and ach of these, though rather contrived, is self-indicting. The main targets of Mr. Haines' ire are: politics in the Army, ineptitude in the higher echelons, lack of co-operation between Army and Navy, and the pressure...
...when they arrived at Washington's National Airport. Along with their wives, Presidents Truman and Gallegos posed for pictures on the new White House balcony. At an official White House dinner, the President presented Gallegos (whom he called Venezuela's "greatest modern litterateur") with the Legion of Merit. Gallegos replied that he was "proud to shake the hand of so sincere and simple a man as the President of the U.S.," presented Harry Truman with six volumes of his works...
...last. Dewey opened his door and faced the throng of newsmen in the hall. They asked him what he had to say. "I am humbly grateful for the confidence of the elected representatives of the Republican Party," he said solemnly, "and hope God gives me the strength to merit it." The blitz was over...
With typical restraint, the doctors concluded: "These results . . . merit further investigation with this type of anesthesia." Last week doctors in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, California and elsewhere were working toward the goal of 100,000 successful deliveries: the number many physicians consider essential before they accept a method as "proved...