Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...
Sent to train with a field hospital unit at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., he marveled at the amiability of officers who let him bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas...
...Flesh entertainment" is a "meat show" to the less elegant rank & file of the theatrical profession...
Eight of Red Russia's top-rank fighting men stood on trial last week in a small, bare courtroom before an array of judges including Marshal Semion Mikhailovich Budenny and Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, president of the Military Colegium of the Soviet Supreme Court. The eight...
Members of Faculties below the rank of associate professor, officers of instruction and administration not Faculty members, alumni of less than 25 years' standing, and students of non-graduating classes cannot be admitted to the Theatre...