Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schlesinger has neither a master's nor a Ph.D. degree-a rarity for a man who reached the rank of full professor at Harvard...
...which 285 faculty and staff members produced a massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
...graduate school recommendations offer a different type of challenge to the faculty member championing your cause. He is asked to rank such qualities as "native intellectualability" along a scale which, depending on the university, may have the relaxed simplicity of "above average, average, or below average," or the scientific exactness of "top 1-2 per cent...
That is where Mayor Cavanagh comes in. If Williams has the affection of the Michigan Democratic rank and file, Cavanagh probably has more strength with the weakly motivated center of the electorate. A disproportionate number of such voters are young, and for them the 37-year-old Cavanagh has great appeal. They associate him with his record as mayor, while they tend to identify Williams with the 1958 recession and the hatchet job he took from the Republican legislature and newspapers...
...full portrait of the mountain, and that a distant one. The book also could have supplied a map tracing the Americans' course, as well as the routes of the two other successful climbs, the first being the British expedition of 1953. Even so, these 90 color plates rank among the best ever taken of any climb. Dr. Hornbein, a member of the expedition, wrote the text from his diary and from tapes recorded on Everest's vertiginous flanks...