Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order of the British Empire (with the rank of Commander and the right to put the letters C.B.E. after their name) went to Miler Roger Bannister, 26 (see MILESTONES), and to Stage & Screen Star Alec Guinness...
...when the old squire of Diddington died, it was natural that Patience should be elevated by the new squire, Guardsman Noel Thornhill, to the rank of butler...
...search has led him through an ordeal of experimentation and frustration -few artists care to undergo. The son of a leading Swiss painter, he started to draw as a boy, at 21 went to live in Paris. He quickly became one of surrealism's leading sculptors. His constructions rank among the wittiest that movement produced. But at the height of his fashion, in 1935, Giacometti made a decision that carried him for the next twelve years through an artistic no man's land: he had come to mistrust his sense of motion and space...
...Jonathan Fay diploma will be awarded to a senior who has high scholastic rank and who has made a significant extra-curricular contribution to the student life of the college...
Hero Victor Velten, like Author Kramer a lawyer and translator, despises his Führer, hates war. He loses a cushy occupation job in Paris and his officer's rank when he takes up with an old girl friend who is in the resistance. Shipped to the Russian front, he does nothing more dangerous than guard and kitchen duty, manages to escape handily when the great retreat gets under way. He becomes a chauffeur at headquarters, and he always manages to keep just out of reach of the Russians. At the end he joins a group that deliberately deserts...