Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty King George VI of England has awarded the coveted Order of Merit to Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, emeritus and senior fellow of the Society of Fellows, the British Consulate General's Office announced yesterday. Whitehead taught philosophy at Harvard from...
...Order of Merit is an honor, conferred by the King on men and women of outstanding achievement. In the customary fashion, Whitehead was notified of his nomination in advance by letter and was asked to send his formal acceptance. His name was then included in the Honors List published in the London gazette of New York's Day. There will be no presentation ceremony...
...Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless since his removal from the China-Burma-India Theater (TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
...Merit Rewarded. The Time for Decision was only one of a heartening number of books which combined solid intellectual or literary merit and unusual popularity. Some others...
...Merit Unrewarded. Not all good books of 1944 won the public they deserved. Friedrich A. Hayek's brilliant exposition of the perils of collectivism, The Road to Serfdom, Hans Kohn's timely historical study, Idea of Nationalism, and Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal's profound analysis of the U.S. Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath...