Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said the advertisement in which the Manufacturers Trust announced its intention of selling capital notes: "Under the Constitution of the State of New York such preferred stock cannot be issued by State Banks, hence the necessity of designating capital so issued as 'Capital Notes.' Such capital notes rank the same and have in general similar conditions as preferred stock issued in other States." Pie is not cake but it is just as good a dessert...
...Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf brought out an English translation of Bunin's famed short story, "The Gentleman from San Francisco" and The Village, few U. S. readers had ever heard his name...
Every packet of rank, loose-rolled Canarias that Spaniards smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
...about 20% of all raw furs on U. S. and Canadian markets. From farms come 98% of silver fox pelts. Farming of other furbearers is still largely experimental. But mink farms, of which there are now several hundred in the U. S. and Canada, are this year beginning to rank as steady and important sources of supply...
...near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that is what Strachey so aptly called it; and will the rank-and-file stand for that next time? Will it consent to have labour representatives doing the dirty work of the gang it was elected to replace...