Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising tide of Democracy was not unfelt at Harvard. In the first 100 years of Harvard eating, the student body was divided into tables of about ten or more men, seated according to social rank. When the first Harvard Hall burned in 1764 a larger room was procured in the present Harvard Hall, and the seating plan began to take on its present lack of class-consciousness...
...down as a freak along with Feminine Reader Graves and the rank and file of other feminine TIME readers who do not care if they are maligned so long as TIME subscriptions are not denied the weaker sex. My story herewith: Nearly three years ago at the time of my marriage I had my subscription transferred to my new name and address. At that time my husband and mother-in-law were reading the _______and _________ respectively. Of course many arguments ensued, in which we each tried to prove the newsworthiness of our choice. As the weeks passed I found...
...Common Cold. Professor Alphonse Raymond Dochez of Columbia University considers the common cold perhaps the most important medical problem of the temperate zone. Regarded as trivial in itself, it may lead to sinus disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, heart or kidney disease. Dr. Dochez has been one of the front rank investigators of the common ailment. Last week he reported small progress. Vaccines in general have been disappointing, as have been extra vitamins and exposure to ultraviolet light. Careful analysis of hygienic habits, clothing, and exercise has failed to show that these are important factors in immunity to colds. But there...
...organized the Little Entente bloc of Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, whose unified foreign policy faces the world so successfully at Geneva that, coming to London as their spokesman, Benes will rank as the representative of a Great Power with Britain, France, the U. S., Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia. There are at least a dozen Latin American countries whose views on foreign trade coincide quite as closely as those of the Little Entente. The Scandinavian countries form another group with Belgium and Holland. Should they form working combines even half as efficient as the Little Entente, and there is much evidence...
...Majesty's Grace, no man in Scotland has higher rank than the Moderator of the "Auld Kirk," the Church of Scotland. Only the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...