Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
...professional rank the Committee will undoubtedly consider George Owen '23, Bruins' player and present coach at M. I. T. and Huge Harrington, present Olympics mentor. Since Dartmouth last year gave the post of head hockey coach to Eddy Jeremiah and Yale has this year named for the position Murray Murdock, both professional stars, the Committee is expected to look over Cooney Welland of the Bruins, Harvard assistant coach in 1932, Fred Hitchman of the Bruins a few years ago, and Bun Cook and Frank Boucher of the Rangers...
...primary schools (grades 1 to 5), 428,000 in junior high schools (grades 6 to 9), 126,000 in secondary schools (grades 6 to 13) 243,000 in industrial, commercial and agricultural schools, 10,000 in teacher-training academies and 32,000 in the 28 schools of university rank-are being trained to want and practice democracy...
Time & again Mr. Loree tried to connect his two roads. Time & again the Commission shook its head. In the 1920s he inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with Pennsylvania, B. & O )., New York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree...
...criticized because they devise spectacular, worldly ways of getting apathetic Christians into church. British parsons now sometimes go them one better. Motion pictures are packing British churches on Sunday nights, largely because of the relatively good films produced by the Religious Film Society, backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards, replied: "If the pill...