Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, the only problems at issue are the extent of the aid to be proffered and what European governments must do in the way of internal "house-cleaning" to merit...
...Sure Hand of God is gamy enough to attract the censors. It has little to merit anyone else's attention...
...impartial survey of nine professors and seven school superintendents declared the schools and administration to be "tolerable verging on poor." Teacher appointments were based on political drag rather than merit, instructors had little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...surprise ceremony, presented to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as chief of OWMR...
...issue is hardly sacrosanct. Preliminary forays by the Law School Record have exposed data on costs elsewhere which merit serious attention. While there is surely no reason to reach an a priori assumption that "more for the money" is a practical possibility, there is even less justification for an official attitude nonchalantly glossing over the entire matter. Such a guarded status quo too easily becomes accepted as inviolate by a student population caught bodily in the rapid maelstrom of life in Cambridge...