Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers. To house Kohler employees, the company built on the outskirts of Sheboygan a 500-house garden city, with its own schools and recreation facilities. With its handsome, well-built red brick houses and patches of landscaped greenery, this monument to paternalism, incorporated as the Village of Kohler, may rank as the world's most attractive company town...
...sequel to I Was a Teenage Werewolf, IWATF will probably rank as one of the year's biggest horrors...
Although it was generally agreed that at least 30 per cent of tutoring in each department should be done by officers of faculty rank, the Faculty expressed differing opinions regarding the means for reaching this goal. Some said that more faculty members must be appointed, while others favored reducing the number of courses required of senior faculty members who join tutorial staffs...
...General Staff itself had been corrupted by the Germans, the army tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence, just handed to him, which proves Esterhazy guilty and Dreyfus innocent. Indifferently, the general turns away. "We must protect...
...story of Dreyfus' recall, retrial, re-conviction, and eventual pardon, vindication and restoration to rank forms one of the most dramatic chapters in French history; but it makes the dullest part of this picture. In this part of the real story, the center of interest naturally shifts from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what...