Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...necessary for the healthy growth of American science" the expansion of institutional or general research grants and the awarding of small research grants to junior scientists. It also requested that federal agencies use advisory panels of scientists to evaluate research proposals and allot grants on the basis of scientific merit...
...young"), and she responded. Soon she was making The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper. Those long deep looks at Cooper, still remembered viscerally by every man who saw the picture, were remembered most by Cooper himself, who for a time shed his marital responsibilities, ripped off his merit badges, and fell head-over-spurs in love, beginning one of those muted Olympian affairs that everyone knows about but few discuss...
Robust Debate. Whatever merit Alabama courts had detected in Commissioner Sullivan's case was totally demolished. The First Amendment, said the Supreme Court, clearly spelled out "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." This commitment, the court has long held, binds the states through the 14th Amendment, which forbids them to abridge a person's liberty without "due process of law." Added the court: "The Times advertisement...
...this year's 280 freshmen, 84% came from the upper fifth of their high school classes, half had college board aptitude scores of 700 or above (tops: 800), 33 had National Merit scholarships. Going beyond test scores, Swarthmore also demands character, asking applicants such offbeat interview questions as "What is your principal shortcoming right now?" "We look," says the admissions dean, "for a kid with a bit of compassion...