Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serving as athletic director in various high schools of Greater Boston, he went over seas during the war with the Yankee Division. While in France he undertook an original piece of work in training and rehabilitating wounded soldiers in some of the large hospital centers and returned with the rank of captain. Called to Harvard in 1919, he was made an instructor in physical education and with the opening of the Indoor Athletic Building, was chosen by Bingham to have charge of the new facilities thereby provided...
...statement, he seized a piece of copy paper and scribbled: "The decision of Mr. Coolidge not to become a candidate next year entitles him to the highest praise of the American people. If Mr. Hoover were to make a like decision, he would have the undying gratitude of the rank and file of the Republican party." Asked if he himself would be a candidate. Senator Johnson snapped: "Quit kidding me! When I'm a candidate you'll know about it. I don't see why certain people have to be so coy about other people...
...only one formal and forlorn candidacy?Dr. Joseph Irwin France of Maryland (TIME, April 30). Dwight Whitney Morrow, on whom Wets pinned dreamy hopes, is dead. A vague stirring of Liberals for William Edgar Borah, with talk of cash support, received no encouragement from the Idaho Senator. The rank & file of the Republican Party may not be enthusiastic about their national leader but they have little choice about putting him again at the head of their ticket...
...state on the Opposition front bench last week sat old George Lansbury, former First Commissioner of Works, the sole Laborite of Cabinet rank not to lose his Parliamentary seat in the election landslide. No Laborite looks to bumbling "Old George" as the Party's real leader, but there was no one else who could be made its floor leader in the House last week. Meeting in caucus outside the House, Laborites re-elected as Party Leader "Uncle Arthur" Henderson who has lost his seat. For the time being Uncle Arthur is in the same boat as "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, leader...
...incomplete. In either case this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process, not one that uses quotas but one that stresses competition. Darwin has shown conclusively that the struggle for existence is the cause of natural selection. Such should be the case...