Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 1750, the men were placed in temporary seniority by the steward when they came to school in August. The following spring, the faculty placed them in permanent rank; up to 1712, pretty much by scholastic merit. Later the placing was done on the basis of social prominence, but the entire custom was eliminated...
MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, 49, Berlin's crisp commandant and an expert on airborne planning, to take Bolte's staff job in the Pentagon; rank (two stars) unchanged...
...cabinet last week. Aneurin Bevan, who had run the Ministry of Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He replaced bumbling George Isaacs, who was shifted to the Ministry of Pensions, with a $5,600 salary cut and loss of cabinet rank. Former Minister of Pensions Hilary Marquand, a little-known, dependable public servant and former economics professor, took over Bevan's Health Ministry. Housing, which had been under the Health Minister's jurisdiction, was shifted to Hugh Dalton, who became Minister of Local Government and Planning...
Since those days, rank & file Communist Vespignani has supplanted Renato Guttuso as Italy's top Red artist. Guttuso (TIME, Oct. 2) had painted too abstractly to please the commissars, then switched and painted too posterishly to please the connoisseurs. For Vespignani, there has been "no need to change." In fact, he seems to regard Moscow as happily in step with Vespignani instead of vice versa. Says he: "I've always thought, and my own life has taught me, that art must have social content...
Fitzgerald died leaving two novels (Gatsby and Tender Is the Night) and a handful of short stories that rank with the most accomplished U.S. writing of this century. His unfinished The Last Tycoon, a novel about a Hollywood producer, showed touches of even greater promise that he never lived to fulfill...