Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...
...need for improvement of educational methods is urgent. The policy at Harvard, and probably at most other American universities, places almost no emphasis on the pedagogical ability of its instructors and professors. Here scholarship, and not inspiration or skill as a teacher, determines the pay and rank of the faculty members. The interest which the man takes in his students, and the sympathy with which he responds to their problems and difficulties, is ignored when promotions are made. As a result the able and ambitious man turns from his students to the presses, for he sees that the royal road...
...Falls State Bank and of Model Candy Co., first vice president and director of Moltrup Steel Products Co. As a cog in the Mellon Republican machine in western Pennsylvania, he was first elected to the House in 1926, is now serving his third consecutive term. In Congress: A rear-rank private in the G. O. P. infantry, he is obedient, dutiful, conservative. No speechmaker, he did not utter a word on the House floor (except to answer roll calls) during the first three months of the current session. Though his attendance is good, he is unknown to many...
...dukedom (highest rank in the peerage) has been created since that of Argyll...
...obscure happening, ignored by headline writers 22 months ago, kicked open the throttle of a roaring train of events that has carried Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain to first political rank in Great Britain and marked him as Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party...