Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from weakening the Indian independence movement, the resignations were expected to strengthen it. The rank and file of Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint...
...overstocked with masterpieces of the great artistic periods, and California artists are the first to admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Mantegna's St. George from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice...
...critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...
...contrast between the definite unanimity of feeling among the rank and file members in the two groups and the conflict in leadership was emphasized by Nixon...
...baronetcy on King George's New Year's Honors List, but died a few days before it could be conferred. After a tactful interval, the King gave the title to Major Hills's five-year-old son. When his mother told him of his new rank, Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills asked: "Is it something nice...