Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1932 shows a decided preference for business pursuits in spite of the economic depression, vocational preferences expressed in the newly-issued Senior Album reveal. Two hundred and two members of the graduating class intend to take positions in the ranks of business, while the legal profession, next in line, will claim 116. Medicine and teaching with 89 and 75 respectively rank third and fourth. A large part of the class, numbering 171, has not as yet decided on a definite occupation...
Vienna is the most suicidal city on earth?58 per 100,000 (1930 figures). Next rank Hamburg 51.1, Shanghai (foreign settlement) 46.6, Berlin 42.2, Brussels 40.9. Havana 38.3, Budapest 35.7, Leningrad 35.3, Warsaw...
...hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
...chosen from 118 nominations which had been narrowed down to 15. Before the final award was made the Atlanta Constitution, presumably overlooking the fact that the published list of 15 was arranged alphabetically by cities, excitedly told its readers that the Constitution's story had been given "first rank...
...penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system of de-emphasis. Under the Gates Plan, all athletics are in a department of physical education headed by a dean. Coaches rank as faculty members, will eventually be paid as little. Intramural sports are stressed. Only seven varsity football games were scheduled for 1932. Educators expected other universities to try other de-emphasizing plans, but few anticipated that a leader would be found in the college with one of the greatest athletic...