Word: ranking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
Scattered among pleas for "thoughtful rebels" and for definite merit criteria, the eight distinguished professors recommended the abolition of assistant professorships. They wisely felt the probationary period before final decision on permanent appointment to be too long and by the elimination of one academic rank they hoped to provide the lucky few with security at an earlier age. At the same time, they wished to set the others on the job-path before any lasting damage had been dealt their careers. But recognizing the dangers of applying its proposals too hastily, they worried: "Although some of the Committee's suggestions...
Plain, thick-browed, 47-year-old Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology...
...sociologist feels, as does the Teachers' Union, that the policy concerning appointments ought to be more flexible in regard to salaries and rank. He objects to the automatic increase of salaries for instructors and associate professors, saying, "Instead of this automatic and mechanical increase, a more flexible scale of remuneration, non-Automatic but based on the merit of the instructor or professor, appears to be more advisable...
...considers himself a professional economist as well as a poet, and testimony to his rank in the former are three articles of his which have been printed in the "Rassegna Monetaria", the Italian economic journal. His explanation of his personal mixture of poet and economist is that "an opic is a poem con- taining history, and if a man thinks he can understand history without economics he is a bloody idiot...