Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicates that the Army leaders, in Washington and in the field, are aged to the point of uselessness. To support his point, he cites the ages of certain of the younger historical military characters. While the idea that war is a young man's business is not without merit, there is another side of the picture...
TIME'S editors are virtually the only ones to express the opinion that there may be some merit to the cause of Japanese-Americans. . . . My own ideas, not necessarily those...
...Radcliffe Idler an ample opportunity to experiment with a new play, and to handle it as they saw fit. It was an opportunity that wasn't wasted, either, for the production, unhampered by a mass of traditional forms of presentation, was staged with an originality and restraint that merit commendation for everyone connected with...
Authorized by Act of Congress last July the newest U.S. medal is "a five-pointed American star, of heraldic form, in red and white enamel, centered with a constellation of the 13 original stars on a blue enameled field breaking through a circle of clouds." The Legion of Merit is a sort of junior Distinguished Service Medal for noncombatants whose qualifications are "extraordinary fidelity and essential service," but whose duties do not carry the "great responsibility" required of those eligible for the D.S.M...
Like its combat equivalent, the Purple Heart, prettiest of all U.S. medals, which was re-created in 1932 chiefly for men wounded in action, the Legion of Merit's ancestry is traced to the oldest of U.S. decorations, George Washington's Badge for Military Merit (1782). Washington awarded his medal for "not only instances of unusual gallantry, but also of extraordinary fidelity, and essential service...