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...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...
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...office of Brooklyn's Council of Jewish Women was unveiled the only death mask extant of ex-Chancellor Engelbert Dolifuss of ex-Austria, smuggled out of the country by Exile Gregor Sebba, who effectively disguised it by modeling over it a mask of Beethoven...
Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured...
...warned that this idle population constitutes a much more dangerous threat to our democratic ideals than all the Fascist propoganda extant in this country. The unemployed tend to form a dissatisfied group which welcomes such propaganda...