Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nights. Since small works of this kind were not usually done on Broadway, he agreed to finish a one-act play on which he was working and to write a second one as a curtain-raiser. In the end the plays turned out to be good enough to rank as a major attraction of the new theater season...
...going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague, Ed Crump, Tom Pendergast, el al., or good staunch Democrats like Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Lamar Caudle ? . . . Even the President's son is a reactionary-he foolishly got rank in the Army by going to West Point and being a Second Looy...
Among enlisted airmen, complaints varied by rank. Men in the lowest grades had classic grumbles: they thought the promotion system was unfair; they considered their noncoms and officers incompetent. The middle grades, e.g., airmen first class, were concerned about base and job assignments that seemed dictated by whim rather than reason...
...home. Because of his high status among Indian princes, and the fact that he approved independence of India despite personal losses, he was named Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, a new state made up of Jaipur, Jodhpur* and 16 other principalities. In his new lifetime job, the maharaja holds the rank, but few of the responsibilities of governor, draws an adequate salary of 18 million rupees ($3,780,000) a year. And, since his job does not require him to stay at home much, he has adapted himself to the New India by doing what he" has done most of his life...
...next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland Art Museum, they are monuments to the highest level of wood carving achieved by a vanished culture...