Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just in time to brighten the holiday season, Canadian servicemen got their first pay raise in two years, an average 9% boost that will make Canada's lowliest enlisted men and its top brass the highest-priced fighting men of their rank in the world. Base pay for the Canadian recruit will jump from $87 to $92 a month. The U.S. buck private draws only...
Genevieve (Rank; Universal-International) comes under the heading of Very Special Jokes-even among the British, who made it. It may thus be assumed that the large U.S. movie public, which dislikes esoteric humor and is leary of many British brands, is not going to laugh itself hoarse at this one. But to some, e.g., the sort of people who understand that the passion for antiques is a bit silly but go on collecting them anyway. Genevieve will come as an irresistible little piece of comic bric-a-brac...
...rule, which may go into effect next fall, according to an announcement Saturday by Arthur S. Flemming, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, would require a higher grade than the present minimum of 75 on the deferment test for college students or a higher rank than merely the top half of a graduating college class...
...years to work as Oppenheimer's research assistant. He taught at Purdue for a year, and then worked on radar at M.I.T. during the war. He came to Harvard in 1946 as an associate professor. A year later, at the age of twenty-nine, Harvard advanced him to the rank of full professor. He is married and drives his cadillac to class from a house on Fairweather Street in Cambridge...
...soldier, just as in every other major venture of his life, Read excelled. He quickly rose to the rank of captain and won the D.S.O. for his heroism in battle. But he returned from the trenches horrified by the senseless slaughter he had witnessed, and resolved never again to aid a war effort. The casual thoughts of pre-war days crystallized into an ardent pacifism...