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...result, the newly selected advanced course cadets will function as sergeants only during the first semester of their third year, and will assume command of the regiment as commissioned cadet officers in the second half of the third year, giving them three semesters in which to bark commands...
...function of this office to proselyte for any branch of the service; but anyone planning to make up his mind had better do so quickly. It takes time to enlist men, and an application filed shortly before December 1 may not get through the machinery in time for enlistment on that date...
...China's shrewd, rotund Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Kung knows that his ability to control prices in vast, loosely organized China would have been doubtful in any case. The Government has set open market ceilings. In some cities they function fairly well, in others badly, depending on the local administration. In the countryside they have little or no effect. Black markets are everywhere...
...attempts to chart social reconstruction: namely, the possibility of predicting the effect of any concrete governmental policy. After citing and evaluating authorities from Plato to Sorokin, Snower concludes that the only solution is pragmatic experiment. Presenting original thought on provocative questions is one of the Guardian's chief functions; this article exemplifies that function at its best...
History is not going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana...