Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humanities. Today more undergraduates are concentrating in the social sciences than the other two combined. . . . A visiting committee from outside . . . submitted an independent evaluation of the state of the behavioral sciences at Harvard. . . . They said: . . . 'We have found that, without exception, each of the departments and professional schools studied rank at or close to the top among the universities of the country...
...winning a smashing propaganda victory in the Orient. As an American I am very proud of these men. But as an American I'm ashamed of the position we put them in. This must never happen again. Our military regulations say that a prisoner may state his "name, rank and serial number," but beyond that he must clam up. This harsh rule is uncivilized, un-American and stupid...
...Early in 1799, Congress, intending to promote Lieut. General George Washington, created the General of the Armies rank, but he died nine months later, not upgraded. Congress has since neglected to promote him posthumously...
...range from photography (she develops her own negatives, sloshing around her bathroom in the dark) to word games. A favorite game is one devised by Alfred Hitchcock when he met Lizabeth Scott and got to wondering what would happen if other people dropped the first letter of their names: Rank Sinatra, Scar Hammerstein, Reer Garson. Orgie Raft, Ickey Rooney...
...realm of statistical matters in the last year, the President observed, the faculty elected 28 members to the rank of Professor and 12 to the rank of Associate Professor. Also, 3,148 degrees were granted in 1953-54 and the University's assets rose from $276,000,000 to $230 million...