Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate, our Argentine distributor saw the Director General of Customs, who said that his orders to ban TIME had come down from the Ministry of Finance. Our Buenos Aires Correspondent (at that time, William Johnson) talked to the Subsecretariat of Information and Press, which denied all responsibility for the ban or even knowing about it. Johnson then saw James Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, who promised to help, and Diego Luis Molinari, president of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who got him an appointment with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. The Foreign Minister agreed that "some solution...
...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
Last week, the guerrillas' 105th brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...prizes were given as an incentive to better teaching, after the Department studied a poll taken among members of the six big undergraduate chemistry courses. It marks the first time in College history that students have been asked to rate their section men as a guide for the faculty...
This year the Chemistry Department departed from a University-wide tradition of indifference to section teaching by offering eleven prizes to the men who rate highest on a poll conducted among the members of the six big undergraduate chemistry courses. The poll, devised by Professor Kistiakowsky, chairman of the department, questions students as to the personality and scientific ability of their section man as well as to the time they think he contributes to teaching. The prizes, each amounting to slightly under a hundred dollars, will come from a fund given by a Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...