Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank and file of the Japanese people remained exuberant with war hysteria. The War Department, disregarding Euro pean protests, sent the 9th and 12th Divisions of the Japanese Army to Shanghai to bolster the none-too-successful blue jackets of Admirals Shiosawa and Nomura...
...hear talk of saving Japan's face. If China were a real power, Japan might have a 'face,' but China has not yet attained the rank of a power...
...that state, is a measure of the problem rather than a solution of it. The courses offered by Harvard to teachers in service, leading to the degree of master of education, represent a more genuine attempt at improvement. Unfortunately, such opportunities attract chiefly those of superior ability, while the rank and file of the profession are not influenced by them. The central problem, to create a superior brand of personnel, remains hardly touched. A further step in that direction would be to restrict teaching by women to the first five grades. In the earlier years of education they are naturally...
...When the Wiggin Committee of the Rank for International Settlements on August 19 told the world that tariffs should be lowered, it was simply repeating advice which had been given many lines during recent years. On April 21, 1931, a similar recommendation was made by General W. W. Atterbury, the learner Republican National Committee man from the protections stronghold of Pennsylvania. But the advice has been little heeded, in part because the man in the street does not clearly understand how and why rising tariffs have been undermining his prosperity...
...decision of Boston University to open a course in "Problems of Depression" places the institution in the front rank of up-to-date colleges. So far as can be ascertained, no other university has taken a like step, which is surprising in view of the fact that the world is investigator-ridden today...