Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hooper makes no attempt to judge a program's merit. The only thing radio men are panting to know is: "How many people listened?" The service makes no claim even to an answer on that. Each Hooper point does not necessarily equal a million listeners (e.g., 31,100,000 for Hope). Hooper says that that rule-of-thumb may be true, but as far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch...
Marrying Season. Until last fall, when the U.S. chargé d'affaires in India visited Nepal for the purpose of decorating the Maharaja with the Legion of. Merit, only a handful of Americans had ever visited the country. But last fortnight the doings of the exotic Americans competed as an attraction with local goings on. This is the Nepalese marrying season. Beginning at 5:30 in the mornings, the streets of Kathmandu echo with sounds of three-man orchestras, flute, drum and tambourine, which accompany the bridegrooms, sitting in small palanquins, on their way to the weddings...
Frederick V. Hunt Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Sciences, was one of four prominent scientists awarded a Presidential Medal for Merit for secret war work, the United States Navy announced last night...
...First awarded in 1815, under the patronage of St. Isabela, for loyalty in defense of Spanish possessions, now a general order of merit. Italy's Galeazzo Ciano also...
Awarded to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: the Legion of Merit, for "outstanding services ... as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Ulvert M. Moore in action against an enemy Japanese submarine...