Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social, economic, and technical conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...
...field had 12 permanent appointees and the fractional services of nine or ten others. The present field has 15 permanent appointments. It will get has no more within the forseeable future because the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is not convinced "the Social Relations boom" is permanent...
...this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17 years; etc. In case of sudden death or excessively premature resignation or retirement, a "call appointment" is made, which does not affect the periodical replenishment of the staff...
...disadvantages, neither of which the University considers compelling at this time. Whereas a large department, which makes a permanent appointment every two or three years, can bring in outstanding scholars from all over the country whenever they turn up, the smaller department, with appointments only every five to ten years, has nothing to offer such men if they happen to be looking for permanent positions in a year when no appointments are scheduled...
...offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years...