Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devotion to Duty." As the pressures bore in upon her last week, Margaret kept her own counsel and performed with cool dignity the duties of her rank. But her face told a story of strain, suspense and indecision. Crowds of photographers, dogging her steps, glimpsed sometimes a young face, suffused with girlish happiness, sometimes a woman's face taut with worry. For nine out of ten successive days, the Princess managed to spend some well-chaperoned hours with Peter Townsend, usually at small, informal parties in the homes of friends. One such evening spun out until...
...well off financially is the modern U.S. teacher compared to his counterpart in 1904 or 1929? Last week, in a special report, the Fund for the Advancement of Education gave an answer: the higher his rank, the worse off the teacher...
With 40.6 percent in the first three rank groups, the Class of '58 paced '56 with 39.9 percent, and '57 with 36.6. This was the second year in a row that an entering class led the College...
Although they rank as full-fledged citizens of the Commonwealth, Negro immigrants from the British West Indies have never been welcomed in Canada; the theory seems to be that the climate is too severe for them. Last week the government announced an experiment, to get under way at the end of October, under which a special group of 100 girls from Jamaica and Barbados will be accepted-to help solve the servant shortage...
...learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted her to the rank of sergeant.* Today the seven-year-old mare is living in honored retirement, knee-deep in alfalfa, near Camp Pendleton, Calif...