Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deferred, a student must pass the General Classification Test with a score of 110 or higher and would have to rank in the top half of the freshman class, the top two thirds of the sophomore class, or the top three quarters of the junior class...
Deferment of students by academic rank is a departure from earlier predicted draft policy. Before the draft committee met last month, it was thought here that it would urge blanket deferment for all students...
...order to be deferred beyond the freshman year of college, a student would have to stand in the upper half of the freshman class. Sophomores would have to rank in the top third of their class to be deferred, and juniors would have to be in the highest quarter...
Three other pictures won places on three lists: John Huston's Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan...
...then a first-rank U.S. literary hero. Leftish intellectuals and young people distressed by the depression saw his massive and radical trilogy, U.S.A., as a powerful plea for America's underprivileged. Written at a time when social novelists were likely to have more anger than talent, U.S.A. was a major literary achievement. Perhaps for the first time, an American novelist chose society as a whole as his central figure and used individual characters as mere illustrations for his thesis that America had been skidding downhill, socially and morally, since World...