Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OPPOSITION O'MALLEY'S RESOLUTION RANK BETRAYAL IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENCE. IF YOU INSIST WILL CHALLENGE YOU DUEL WHERE PERMITTED...
Recognition of taxation as a national problem of the first rank came from the Government at about the same time as from the taxpayer. Early in 1937 a famed authority on taxation, Columbia University's Roswell Magill, was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. Studies were promptly started. And then in a message to Congress last April President Roosevelt declared that there was "an immediate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure." One result of that call to action was the red-herring investigation of incorporated yachts during the battle over the Supreme Court...
...ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered...
...miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank as the largest star known to astronomy...
...Mandarin family, one-time head of Whampoa Academy (Chiang Kai-shek's officers' training school), who suggested a 92-day itinerary, gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort of man" now past 50, once a powerful politician adept at the chess game of Chinese politics, who became a revolutionist in 1922 and gave...