Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criticism of Mr. Wallace's statements is customarily a scarce commodity. His opponents damn him wholly, and his admirers praise him indiscriminately. Where a man generates such violent repulsion or attraction, it is difficult to discover a sizable number of appraisers who are able to seek out the undeniable merit in his position and at the same time criticize and reject what is impractical or undesirable. The press has been of little help to fair minded critics. All too often Mr. Wallace is portrayed as all good...
Last week in Washington, Elmira Wickenden, 57, became the first nurse and the third woman to receive the Medal for Merit,* the highest honor that the nation can bestow on civilians for wartime service. Said she: "This medal was not awarded to me; it was given in recognition of the fine work done by American nurses...
...Saint Paul and Saint Augustine.* Both had special reason to know what they were talking about. Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage. Each felt himself to have been saved by God through no merit or initiative of his own, indeed almost against his will. This, they said, was the grace of God: a divine gift bestowed not on the worthy-for all men are equally deserving of damnation-but to a few selected by God for His own unfathomable reasons...
...converts to his more optimistic doctrine; but after years of vigorous controversy between him and Augustine, the Church decided that Pelagianism was heresy. Heresy or not, Pelagianism was a good deal easier to live with. By the close of the Middle Ages, says Dr. Hardman, the Pelagian doctrine of merit had virtually replaced Augustinian predestination in the practical workings of the Church...
Herbert Bayard Swope, longtime associate of Bernard Baruch, got the Medal for Merit from General Dwight D. Eisenhower while, for a change, much-honored Baruch (with Cabinet members, a major general, a brigadier general and two lieutenant generals) stood on the sidelines...