Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...order to be safely beyond the call of the army, it is necessary that a freshman rank in the upper half of his class, a sophomore in the upper two-thirds, junior in the top three-fourths, and a senior in the top quarter of the class...
...have attained the best distribution of scholastic rank and school background yet," Elliott Perkins '23, Secretary of the Housemaster's Council and Master of Lowell House, said last night...
...effort to remedy the unequal distribution of previous years, the Housemasters placed no limit on the number of freshmen who could be accepted into the House of their first choice. The Masters this year "bartered" among themselves in order to produce an equal distribution according to rank group, field of concentration, and extra-curricular activities...
...ordeals of the men on Hill 317 become the ordeals war imposes on any army or all armies, on any man or all men. When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs...