Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a fishing port here. It is not so very small, however. Our commercial fisheries rank second among the commercial fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. And we have any number of deep-sea fishing boats for sport...
Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...
...holiday was quickly made annual by all save seven of the southern states, while Virginia recognized the occasion each year, but called it "Confederate Memorial Day". Thus Memorial Day is virtually a national event, and after almost seventy years of steady observance, has assumed a position of real traditional rank...
Hence Secretary Hull first got Congress to revive the job of "Counselor," co-equal with Under Secretary in rank and pay ($10,000). The younger, career diplomat, he gave an office adjoining his own, the right to be Acting Secretary in his absence. To the older, amateur diplomat he gave an office two doors away, a closer place as his personal adviser on semilegal and political problems. In short, Sumner Welles will wear the spats, Judge Moore the carpet slippers...
...parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty and little-known episode in the history of Asia Minor. As usual he gives his far-off tale the vivid immediacy that has won him a place in the first rank of historical novelists...