Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maynadier's course on the English novel, English 29, has become one of the most popular in the Department. He also conducts English 12, a composition course. He came to Harvard as an instructor, after taking his Ph.D. in 1898, and was promoted to the rank of assistant professor in 1929. While he could not be reached last night, it is understood that he will continue to live in Cambridge...
...House of their own choice. In addition to data regarding the tutorial quotas of each House, the Central Committee had before it as guides in making the assignments, tables showing the make-up of the Houses and also an analysis of the Freshman applications as to schools, Rank List groupings, and possible fields of concentration...
Elihu Root was 54. at the top of his profession and the hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State...
...were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...
Perhaps lacking an opening in major league managerial circles, the retired home run king has assumed the portenous mission of swatting cricket balls all over the field so persistently as to achieve the complete and permanent ruin of the English national game. That would be something to rank with our own Boston Tea Party...