Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop me at the end of almost every sentence, and we'd examine that sentence and push it around and rephrase it, clearing it up and sharpening it and smoothing it: adding a little to it ... [I] suggested that if he really thought the book had merit, he let me put his name on the title page with mine and take half the royalties...
...only does the measure guard the sanctity of state boundaries, but it protects such local customs as segregated education (in the South), and state aid to parochial schools (wherever it exists). Any attempt to question the merit of these two traditions would, of course, cause a conflagration in Congress and probably kill the present bill forthwith. That is definitely not the object of supporters of federal aid to education. They rightly figure that if compromise will get some money into the public school system, then compromise is currently the ticket for them...
...newly elected graduate members of Phi Beta Kappa, have been sel- acted because Phi Beta Kappa thought their overall college records merit recognition for scholastic achievement. They...
Each year in addition to the undergraduates Phi Beta Kappa elects several alumni whom it thinks merit recognition for scholarly achievement; about once every three years an individual outside the student body or alumni is elected to honorary membership on the same basis a alumni members...
When questioned specifically about the entrance policy of the Medical School by Representative Maurice A. Donchue of the Education Committee, Shaw replied that the Medical School selects its students entirely on merit...