Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consulting engineer to several oil companies. A bland, exuberant genius, he has invented scores of big and little gadgets (including an electric flytrap at the age of eleven). He originated most of the 1,475 projects completed by his office to date, was rewarded with the Legion of Merit last month...
...Guildhall ceremony over, Ike Eisenhower was entertained at lunch by the Lord Mayor. He received the Order of Merit from the King, was later granted an audience by the Queen Mother, who astonished him by offering him a cigaret, taking one herself. Winston Churchill, beaming with professional admiration, clapped him on the back and said of the speech: "Well done, Ike, very well done." London's press beamed...
...years between 1895 and 1911. Only with the publication of Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest...
...Ladies' Home Journal paid him $10,000 for the rights to publish Ladies'-Home-Journalized. excerpts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 1944's best cartoon. In Italy last week, at a ceremony crowded with brass hats, Bill Mauldin was presented with the Legion of Merit...
...that instructors could speed the bright cadets and worry along with the dullards; 3) daily recitations and grades for all cadets; 4) a Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, to in spire public confidence; 6) a cadet officer hierarchy, based solely on merit; 7) a strong community of spirit, based on absolute honesty. By the time Thayer resigned in 1833, West Point had earned international renown...