Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students wishing to be considered should list the amount of their April term bill, their approximate resources, the amount they are receiving from University loan or beneficiary aid funds, whether they have a scholarship or student employment position, what activities they had participated in, their group in the rank list, and any other information they think might be of value to the committee...
Player-managers, who will rank their respective players for each match, have been selected for every division. They are J. Wright Barry of Matthews, Leo Marx of Wigglesworth, Julian M. Sobin of Straus for the "South End." and Richard H. Andrews of Thayer for the "North...
Moreover, the great majority of those who attended the meeting were small fry, politically and economically. Even Congress members who hold cabinet rank in Indian provinces are held down by Saint Gandhi to a salary of 500 rupees per month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor...
...five-suit game vary considerably from those of orthodox contract bridge. Each player gets 16 cards, the extra one being faced up by the dealer for disposition by the player who gets the bid. The "book" (in bridge, six tricks) becomes eight in super-bridge. In the bidding, "royals" rank between spades and no trumps. Club and diamond tricks above book count 20 points, heart and spade tricks 25, royals 30, no trumps 40. Game level is raised from 100 to 120 points. Three slams are possible: little slam, or six tricks over book; grand slam, seven over book...
...Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist whose followers believe he is God, has many "extensions" or "kingdoms." Chief one until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good...