Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing this badge of merit the intrepid Yardling will thus become the first of his class to run the gauntlet of laundry salesmen, cleaning and pressing representatives and gunners vendors who are expected to be out in full force to greet the somewhere Freshmen...
...belief held by some citizens, that the Roosevelt sons get swift and easy promotions, minus merit or danger, sources in the Army & Navy said privately that nearly all would have been farther along in the services if their father had not deliberately held promotions and even citations back from them...
...next step is to bring the problem before each House Committee, Thomas Matters '43, president of the Student Council, stated last night. Pointing out that one merit of the plan would be to make sure that someone interested in dances is always in charge for each House, he said that modifications may be necessary to insure acceptance by all Houses...
...laid his elaborate groundwork, West Pointer Eisenhower could be well pleased that his top commanders were, like himself, relatively young generals and products of the merit system...
Died. Wilbur John Carr, 71, "father of the American Foreign Service"; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A member of the Department of State for 47 years, he was largely responsible for reforms which tended to take foreign service out of politics and to put it on a merit basis. He became Assistant Secretary of State in 1924 under Secretary Charles Evans Hughes, resigned the post in 1937 to become Minister to Czecho Slovakia, retired...