Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was scarcely a dry eye last week on a trio of radio & TV shows. On CBS, Funnyman Red Buttons' career came to a halt almost as suddenly as it began. Two years ago Buttons came from nowhere (small parts in show business) to rank in the first five of TV's most popular shows. This year his rating dipped sharply and, though it strengthened in the past few months, Sponsor Maxwell House Coffee decided to drop him for a completely new show this fall...
...Markham this spring completed her 11th year as an assistant professor at the Medical School. This is the limit at this rank and she was not in line for promotion. Fine's was a one-year appointment and he was not seeking re-employment...
Besides supervising the office's employees in these routine tasks, Miss Jones personally carries out a job that is as valuable to the University, and difficult to execute, as it is unique and unpublicized. In the early part of each spring she carefully guesses what rank of honors-summa, magna, or cum-each one of that year's honors candidates will retain when he graduates...
...necessity for these annual guesses by Miss Jones lies in the fact that each diploma awarded with honors by the College must have the honors rank and the field of concentration hand-written in fancy script. Obviously, there would not be time to prepare all these diplomas between the final determination of honors and Commencement. It falls to Miss Jones, therefore, to sit down in April, review the academic record of each honors candidate, and accordingly predict how each will be graduated. The diplomas are then prepared on the basis of her predictions, and any mistakes she has made...
...segregation and discrimination look sillier than ever. TIME'S March 24 article on the ruling should be read by every American ... It is so important now that all citizens of the U.S. be made aware of the fact that the Negro is a man, a citizen of equal rank, and that two-thirds of mankind's people are dark-skinned, and they are watching and gauging America in terms of her treatment of the Negro...