Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such executives elect are in particular demand now; in the last 20 years, an ever-decreasing number of young men (and, to be sure, women) have entered the banking and finance field, obviously because of the depression and the war. Thus, banks themselves predict a great influx of younger administrators because of the scarcity of competition for the lucrative jobs day by day being vacated by the retirement of older men. And banks, staid and traditional as they may appear to be, are taking a progressive and competitive concern in their hiring programs. What, then, do these companies offer...
past Flynn into the lower right hand cage corner to particular clinch the contest...
...from an unqualified success. As always, the Council has some achievements to recall with satisfaction. In the coming year, however, it is even more important that the new Council remember the mistakes of the past year. For 1953 was a significant year with attacks on universities, Harvard in particular, imposing increased responsibilities on the Council. To the members' credit, they recognized these responsibilities. But in meeting the problems of nationwide notoriety, the Council has often faltered. To avoid these errors in the future must be a major objective for the new Council...
...consequences of this trip to the archives go beyond depriving some professors of an annual bluebook bonfire. Students should now be given back their books. No longer will the reasoning behind a particular grade be the secret of a grader, pried from him only a specially-arranged meetings. If a student is to write for three hours, he deserves to know where he failed or succeeded. Under the new University regulation, or lack of it, there is no reason that he must be deprived of this knowledge any further...
...Love (United Artists) for no particular reason transposes the 1949 Alfred Hayes novel, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, from Rome to Paris. The novel, an equally pointless attempt to transpose A Farewell to Arms into a contemporary setting, proved that you can't get high twice on the same old vermouth. Act of Love shows that the third time around can be a distinctly sobering experience. The hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl...