Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot, 49, Missouri-born poet who became a British subject in 1927, received from George VI the Order of Merit-one of the Crown's rarest decorations...
...proposed last fall in order to remedy the critical need of alleviating parking difficulties in the Square area. The project would provide a parking area behind the Business School at a charge of three dollars a month. The proposal failed to win sufficient student support in December to merit its being put into operation...
...name? Everything, it would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
...year in which the flight into the past was accelerated in fiction and nonfiction. But current anxieties broke through. A book called Peace of Mind was the biggest non-fiction seller of the year, a reflection not so much of its own merit as of the numbers of Americans seeking the assurances and affirmations of religion...
...committee on the basis of the interest in his class and the College, and the quality of his service to them, that he has displayed during his years at Harvard. Beyond any question, a number of highly qualified men are on the ballot. Other men, however, of indisputably equal merit, have been ignored, despite the immensity of the ballot...