Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four of the Britishers rank as unknown quantities. The factor which seems to favor the Americans is the severe disruption of English tennis felt during the war. "While our squad boasts no national champion, we don't suspect many a British star is kicking around nowadays," says Barnaby...
...David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this was something to holler about...
Almost all London's critics agreed that the film was worth everything that had gone into it: more than $2,000,000 (J. Arthur Rank's) and six months of hard work. Said the Evening Standard: "It has moments of rare beauty and feeling such as the cinema has seldom seen . . . Olivier leaves no doubt that he is one of our greatest living actors...
Londoners took heed; at week's end, the Odeon was sold out for a month in advance. Impresario Rank plans to release the picture in the U.S. late this summer...
Seven Faculty members have been elevated to higher professorial rank in the last two days, Provost Buck announced yesterday as he listed the University's annual spring crop of promotions...