Word: rank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kitchin continued. "That isn't true at all; they learn how to be social hostesses." She noted that student government leaders had joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees you see around here aren't Sargent girls. They're probably from Radcliffe or somewhere...
...Harlow with most of the football material at Harvard joined the armed forces. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander during his two-year-plus stayed in the Navy, most of which was spent in the Pacific area...
...article about Nicholas Murray Butler [TIME, Dec. 15] stated that the faculty of Columbia University is among the nation's four best. Can you report the names of the other universities that rank with Columbia...
...choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale. Their recorded performances of Bach rank with the best in Europe. About the only time he gets all his 185 singers together is when the Chorale puts on its own concerts in Carnegie Hall or does Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Toscanini...
Merger for Rank. After all the fuss & feathers, the stockholders of J. Arthur Rank's Odeon Theaters Ltd. quietly ap proved his plan to buy his General Cinema Finance Corp., for ?1,100,000 (TIME, Dec. 22). The plan was carried, with no dis sent, by a show of hands at the stock holders' meeting. Said the London Times: "Nobody will now query the [deal's] propriety . . . since shareholders have been given ample opportunity of dissenting...