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Though the steadiest performer on her team�and the winner of the World Cup in London last fall�the Merited Master of Sport from Rostov-on-Don will be hard-pressed to repeat her '72 victory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Merited gift or wage. mensuration   Process of measuring.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry

Merited compliment to the head of the Secretary of the Treasury.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

They wanted to put the Cap-Sheaf on a Profitable Season, and at the same time hand the Merited Rebuke to some of the Husbands and Brothers who had been making Funny Cracks.

From More Fables by Ade, George