Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the legislative process, the bill takes a firm step toward carrying out the recommendations of a study committee headed by General Electric President Ralph Cordiner, aimed at cutting the costly turnover in armed forces personnel by offering higher incentives for career service. Some representative pay raises by Army rank or equivalent: Present Rank Longevity Monthly Raise...
...looming, 11,300-ft.high Mount Aspen tantalizingly visible from classroom windows. When book learning shuts down at noon every Wednesday, almost the entire school population gathers at the ski school on the mountain. The high school's ski team is among the state's best, and individual students rank high in nonschool meets...
...church has its revered relics, e.g., some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
Paris dealers scooped up some $9,500,000 for their 40,000-odd artists last year; the Ecole de Paris remains the most talked about, the most museum-represented "school" in the world. But there are no revolutions, no barricades. There are no new leaders to rank with or even near Picasso and Chagall and Braque. There is a group of talented artists who paint in styles ranging from realistic to expressionistic, from primitive to symbolic (see color pages). Among the best: ¶ Alfred Manessier, 47 (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955), who was shaken out of his surrealist visions by World...
...that the regime has been forced to hire nonpolitical technical and professional men for the choice jobs formerly saved for party members. The purge brought at least one other improvement: an end to the tedious weekly Communist pep talks formerly required in every factory and business establishment. The party rank and file, presumably, is still too weak to be entrusted with propagandizing...