Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report classified the distribution of students according to geographical origin, public or private schools, standing on the College rank list, and fields of concentration. Omitting a few large differences, the various Houses have for registered any remarkable preponderance of one classification...
...Atlantic sections lead with 277 and 225 respectively, while the Middle West with 127 is the only other part of the country well represented. With Exeter and Andover leading, the next private schools are St. Paul's, with 16, and Milton, with 15 members. In the college rank lists the 230 students in group V are most numerous, and the 10 students in group I are the scarcest. Economics, with 140 students leads the fields of concentration, while English with 83 is second, and History is third with...
Many a citizen of Udine, Italy, home of giant Fisticuffer Primo Camera, made the pilgrimage to nearby Gemona to inspect a colossal statue of Camera, whom they rank with their great men. They voted to erect the statue, when completed, in an Udine square...
...Author. Walter de la Mare, 58, English minor poet, anthologist, editor and bedtime-verse-writer (he is most widely known for his children's verse & tales), has written many a prose book which critics rank as high as any of his verse. An enthusiastic fictioneer, he sometimes lectures on the art. Married, he has four children, lives in London. Other books: Songs of Childhood, Poems, The Listeners and Other Poems, The Return, Peacock Pie, The Veil and Other Poems, The Riddle and Other Stories...
...informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly its disapproval of the conduct of any officer of the naval establishment in making remarks which tend to embarrass the international relations of the Government. Such action on the part of an officer of your rank and length of service merits and receives the unqualified condemnation of the Navy Department and for their utterance, which you admit, you are hereby reprimanded." Observers thought they perceived the hand of the State Department in this outcome. A court-martial would inevitably have raised the unpleasant question: Did Mussolini...