Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...
...necessary for these high ranking Chinese to go on foot through the dusty streets of Tangku, and stand humbly in the broiling sun before the heavy gates of the Japanese barracks in this Chinese town, until Japanese soldiers deigned to open. Inside, the Japanese plenipotentiaries were of insultingly lower rank than the Chinese they forced to sign on the dotted line...
...little tunneling under the cold crust of facts and figures relating to scholarships uncarths significant features. The distribution curve on the rank list is, of course, far above the general level. More pertinent, however, is an examination of one category of scholarships, the Prize Fellowships, the cream of the crop and President Conant's especial dream children...
...taking Mr. Dubinsky's. The intolerance displayed by Mr. Littleton's withdrawal cannot be regarded as the typical attitude of the average donor to the endowment fund. For Princeton to try to collect more capitalistic dollars by turning down the contribution of a workers' union would be a rank violation of the liberal tradition for which men like Woodrow Wilson made the College famous in time past...
...customs officer looked suspiciously over a bundle of his scores, asked in what language they were written (TIME. Jan. 14. 1935). Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard his trick harmonics as a glorious, artistic in novation. A few rank him and his old friend Painter Pablo Picasso, equally well-grounded in classicism and equally able to produce conventional art forms if he chose, as the 20th Century's greatest artistic jokesters...