Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better off were the correspondents with the Italian army in Eritrea. They were given special provisions, treated as officers without rank. They ate at the officers' mess, billeted with the troops, were furnished transportation by motor, horse, mules. Toughest assignment was handed UNIPressman Herbert R. Ekins. Newshawk Ekins, who covered the Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were...
Instead of the various grades of general, the Red Army received last week "brigade commanders," "division commanders." "corps commanders." "second rank army commanders" and "first rank army commanders...
Last week members of the Book-of-the-Month Club were able to discover for themselves that Seven Pillars of Wisdom belongs in the first rank of personal accounts of the War. If they expected sensational tittle-tattle that would justify the former price and rarity of the book, they were apt to be disappointed. If they were content with a long, careful record of a particularly diffuse type of warfare, written by a sensitive, philosophical Englishman who had exceptional opportunities to observe it, they found Seven Pillars of Wisdom a rewarding study. In it brisk and tumultuous accounts...
...most deplorable misconception of the average young instructor is that Fate has destined him to achieve the illustrious rank of "Harvard Institution". As if the Copelands and Kittredges did not amply fill their roles of arch-indiosyncrasists in University life, the humble section man aspires, very unwisely, to work up through the intermediate grade of Temperamental Professor and supply the lack of eccentricity among the Gods of Learning...
...Ross died in London on September 12. Special memorial services for him will be held today, in the Mt. Auburn Chapel. His gifts, running into the hundreds, rank him as one of the museum's major benefactors, and he gave both time and money when the collections were yet in an infant state. Among his pupils were dodge MacNight, Joseph Linden Smith, and Robert Gawley, whose pictures Professor Ross also gave to the museum...