Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase in freshman scholarships--from 475 worth under $800,000 last year--was authorized to compensate for, among other things, an expected reduction in National Merit Scholarships awarded this year...
Kuhn gave up teaching in 1964 to concentrate on the museum and on writing. His books include Catalogues of German Paintings in American Collections and German Expressionism and Abstract Art. He received the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, for the latter publication...
...molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent work (interrupted by necessity of investigating unsavory charges against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost casually into the House of Representatives' hopper a day earlier...
...freshman scholarship budget was increased to $850,000 for next year. The increase, from under $800,000 last year, was authorized to offset among other things, the expected reduction in National Merit Scholarships, which have always lightened Harvard's scholarship burden...
...Gunness said, will cover increases in freshman scholarships resulting from the phase-out of the National Merit Scholarships and the use of the revised College Scholarship service tables...