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Word: meriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment compensation, which has the merit of placing money where it is needed, has, perhaps, been paid too much homage by economists and politicians. But the advantage of sustaining consumer purchasing power during long stretches of unemployment is obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Recession | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

Reorganization of certain market structures, particularly in highly concentrated, oligopolistic sectors, also has great merit as an effective economic control--although the Administration has shown little imagination in this area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Recession | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

...others, and this year's records: Brooklyn Technical High School, one Merit Scholarship winner; the High School of Music and Art, one winner; Stuyvesant High School, six winners-tied for second place nationally with Evanston (Ill.) Township High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Training for Brains | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school in the U.S. This week, when the new batch of National Merit Scholarship awards was announced, the school had seven winners, again led the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Training for Brains | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...BLONDE IN BLACK, by Ben Benson (224 pp.; Morrow; $2.95), suggests what too many mystery writers have forgotten: murders sometimes merit sympathy; the police deserve credit for some sense. When Detective Wade Paris investigates a killing at the home of Singer Junie Jacques, he does his job so thoroughly that he winds up with a well-documented story of how a recording star is made. Everything falls into place. The greasy-haired idol of the sloppy-soxers gets into the book for good reason; the sex is there for more than the leers. Even the lunatic brother in the barred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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