Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday afternoon's session, reliable sources indicate that six or seven faculty members, all holding permanent appointments, attacked the Administration's application of the new rank system in the case of the ten assistant professors...
...past few years the whole Faculty has ordinarily met only a few times each year. For most purposes its functions are delegated to the Faculty Council, a representative body elected by all those above the rank of instructor...
...that time the Teachers' Union charged that the Administration had violated the "spirit and the letter" of the newly adopted tenure system, a charge reiterated by PBK. The new Faculty rank system was adopted in principle by the Administration last Spring on the recommendation of the Committee of Eight...
...Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons...
Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 9 sides). One of the two or three violin concertos that rank with the greatest of symphonies. Magnificently recorded...