Word: rank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to admire Mr. Auslander's work very much indeed. On that point opinions may differ, as they differ in regard to every writer. But certainly his work is head and shoulders above the rank and file of those writing verse in this country. Moreover, he has preserved both honesty of intention and vigorous independence as a craftsman. Yet to your many readers he is presented almost in the role of a charlatan...
...them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford...
...Reichswehr, no soldier in active service may marry without his commanding officer's permission, nor may he marry a Jewess or other than Aryan. Those even in the reserve who do so will lose their military rank. German citizens living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have...
...black Kaffir boy of Jacobus J. Jonker, a seedy South African prospector. That night Prospector Jonker tied the stone around his wife's neck, bolted his cabin doors, stood guard until dawn with his son Jacobus Jr. Next morning the stone was weighed at 726 carats, took rank as the fourth largest ever found. Cut as a single stone it would be second only to the Star of Africa which was cut from the Cullinan stone and is now a British Crown jewel. Dealer Winston, mindful that the U. S. has no diamond to compare with it in size...
Lindbergh: "A singularly human and sensible guy . . . not so shy, either, but annoyed, and rightly so, by all the publicity. . . . I continue to rank him at the very top of real men. The most surprising thing about him, I found, was his technical ability. He is a born engineer...