Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Y.M.C.A. vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
Movies will be rated with from one to four exclamation points (!), according to merit, and particularly from a male point of view...
...have been given to understand two things First, all men who are called for interview will not necessarily be bilged. Second, all men who make the minimum grade will not necessarily stay on. But, as was promised, it looks like each case will be considered on its own merit. In all seriousness, we'll all be terrifically relieved when the suspense is over. The best of luck to every anxious reader...
Last week appeared Georgie's autobiography (So Help Me-Random House; $2.50)-or what William Saroyan, in a rather sniffy introduction, suspects is just the first of Georgie 's autobiographies. Though any future ones should have no trouble excelling So Help Me in literary merit, none can hope to outdo it for frankness and questionable taste. Jessel shoots the works, Rousseaus his wild oats, touts his triumphs, flaunts his flops, underscores his drinking, italicizes his debts, is sometimes hard to take, occasionally hard to resist, always human...
...accident in 1935, School Superintendent Maurice Reed Keyworth combined educational idealism and political savvy to create an astonishingly effective school system. Day & night schools enrolled 17,000 students-no less than 33% of the population. Teachers were (until the depression) well paid and protected from political pillaging by a merit system, the Keyworth Code. They hoped to change Hamtramck's character by raising a new generation of better citizens. Over the door of Copernicus High School was blazoned Keyworth's motto: "To develop individuals who can live successfully in a democracy...