Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the front rank spotted Commander Waters boldly striding across the forbidden plaza toward the Capitol. The packed mass stirred forward, broke the police barrier. With one tumultuous rush thousands surged across the plaza after their leader...
...heavy review battery ranged from newsy Current History through Review of Reviews and World's Work to coldly business-like System. Except for System, which changed from an organ of interpretation to an executive's handbook now called Management Methods, the heavy review rank held until last week, when Review of Reviews swallowed Doubleday-Doran's World's Work. Beginning with the August issue, Review of Reviews will carry the name of World's Work with its own on the cover but will not alter editorial content...
...party to select the weakest man cannot bring success. Governor Roosevelt has utterly failed in his last two attempts to sell himself to the people. There is a wealth of material before the convention. . . . Why consider the one man who is weakest in the eyes of the rank and file...
...windowpane" is the King of Denmark's excessively tall, sardonic, adventurous cousin Aage. Last week Prince Aage startled smart Paris by announcing: "With my wife I am going back to Morocco. The French Government has kindly permitted me to re-enlist in the Foreign Legion with my former rank of captain. I shall be on active service. My business career, which began in Paris a year ago, has proved infinitely disappointing...
...Liberty, Mrs. Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, Washington socialite and politician, wrote a list of "Ten Best-Mannered men in America." She gave first rank to former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (''always the gallant gentleman"), second place to Irvin...