Word: ranke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Twenty-five percent of all couples who married in 1948 are still looking for shelter; they either live with their parents, or they are forced to stay in hotels and furnished rooms without kitchens." France, he added, ranks 15th among modern nations in building activity, be hind even Poland. Only Hungary and Rumania rank lower...
...these are the exceptions. "Lousy," is James T. Farrell's word for the average writer's economic situation. "Scrawny and having a rank odor," growls Novelist Kenneth Roberts. "Very discouraging," says J. P. Marquand, who adds: "It's harder for a writer to amass a fortune than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." Writes Critic Malcolm Cowley in his appraisal of The Literary Situation: "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and westerns, I doubt that 200 Americans earned the major portion of their income, year after year...
With three forwards from Minnesota and one from Canada as the backbone of his freshman hockey team, Coach John White has a sextet that should rank with the fine teams of 1952 and 1953. The Yardlings will open their season today against Belmont High School at 4 p.m. on the new Donald C. Watson rink...
...Byron was addicted to poetry. When she read him some poems of Burns, he astonished her by saying that "he, too, was a poet sometimes." After he published his first signed volume of poems, Hours of Idleness, he began to lead the life "of a gay young man of rank," and was so fearful of "doing anything of a nature to lower his character as a gentleman" that he pooh-poohed both his Hours of Idleness and his hours of boxing lessons with...
Died. Raymond Stallings McLain, 64, first National Guard officer (Oklahoma) to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the Regular Army, wartime commander of the XIX Corps in the Battle of the Bulge and in the drive across the Elbe, postwar comptroller of the Army and member of the National Security Training Commission, board chairman of Oklahoma City's American First Trust and Title Co.; of leukemia; in Washington...