Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valiant work in the clapper case, Apted was elevated from the rank of captain of the Yard Police to that of major, and less than a year later was made a colonel in recognition of his recovery of the Seared...
...which office it is but one long step to the White House. He greets more distinguished foreigners, delivers more speeches, lays more cornerstones, makes more important news than any other U.S. mayor. The Mayor of the nation's second city- hustling, bustling, brawling, sprawling Chicago-should by rights rank next to the Mayor of New York in national prestige and power. But he does not. He governs the most thoroughly American city in the land, a polyglot metropolis that began as a cast-off of the East as the East began as a cast-off of Europe. Chicago...
Infrequently of late has Spain, which used to dispatch musicians to the U. S. in a steady stream, sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement...
...gift that he agreed to put a capstone on the new edifice of Russo-Polish friendship which diplomats of the two countries have been building with trade treaties and non-aggression pacts (TIME, July 17). The capstone: Poland and Russia will shortly raise their respective Legations to the rank or Embassies...
...considered overpaid. As the decade closed and the Town, its income reduced, had to go on supporting State universities by paying taxes, sympathy for the poor professor vanished. This year Depression has caught up to the universities with a vengeance. Of Ohio State's dismissed employes, 57 ranked from instructor to full professor, 127 were junior staff members. 52 nonacademic. Seventy-three others were put on part-time. Seven professors, including Joseph Villiers Denney (English), Herbert Osborn (entomology), Berthold A. Eisenlohr (German), were shelved with emeritus rank. All remaining faculty members had their salaries cut, for the third time...