Word: rank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor and her children have full princely rank and the style of Royal Highness. This week the Duke, after intimations that the Rothschilds would like him to pay some rent for their castle in Austria (TIME. March 29), moved out. Journeying to a former pension or boarding house on the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, where Edward...
...same procedure used then in gathering material for the articles on the various fields will be used again this year. Letters have already been sent out to the heads of departments requesting that names of about 20 concentrators selected from the first five group of the rank list...
...Grand National is the hardest horse race in the world. Winner by three lengths at odds of 100-to-6 last week was Royal Mail, ridden by Evan Williams and owned by Hugh Lloyd Thomas, charge d'affaires at the British Embassy in Paris. Second was James Rank's Cooleen, third, E. W. W. Bailey's Pucka Belle...
...gusty romantic divertissement hand-tailored by Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker to fit the talents of its three principal players, Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur and Leo Carrillo. Its purpose is entertainment and it achieves its end. Its importance, cinematically, is due largely to a shipwreck sequence which takes rank with the famed earthquake in San Francisco...
...reverence for the Freshman and the custom of having a third of each class in any one house. But if this pretense is to be dropped and justice administered, upperclassmen in good standing who have tried repeatedly should be viewed on a level with Freshmen of the same scholastic rank. Having served his time watching college life from the sidelines, the deserving Sophomore should be given an opportunity to get into the game, and the Freshman allowed to take the bench...