Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John W. Carr, B.U. chairman, asserted that "MacArthur's actions may have been of merit in wartime, but they would lead to dictatorship in peacetime...
...speech this week at New Haven, U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Irving S. Olds dismissed price-wage increases as a major cause of inflation. The real root of the disease, he said, was expansion of bank credit, and the cure was in deflating it. His point had merit, but his attitude, like almost every businessman's, was that the other fellow ought to have more self-control...
Most foreign films, even the British crop, do not get wide distribution in the U.S.; but there is a current flood tide of good ones. Some of the best, roughly in order of merit...
...presumptuous on the part of an undergraduate. But as one who has become increasingly dissatisfied with Harvard teaching methods, I have felt obliged to put my thoughts down on paper. Much thought and experimentation are needed to make this plan a reality, if it is found to have any merit, but above all there is a need that the administration direct its attention to Harvard College as such and not just to Harvard University as a research center for which Harvard College is the source of teaching personnel and future alumni contributions...
Ozzie has always had an appetite for action. He was the youngest Eagle Scout in New Jersey (and won a trip to Europe with the qualifying merit badge). At Rutgers, he was varsity quarterback, lacrosse letterman, diver on the swimming team, middleweight boxing champion, a fair musician, and a near miss at Phi Beta Kappa. When Rudy Vallee was king of the crooners, Ozzie was a topflight bandleader. Last week, at 41, he was still riding high. His husband-&-wife program (CBS, Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) was the best in its category, with a 10.5 Hooperating...