Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, is one of the few to reach top rank in the Communist world, and Pauker is now out of power and out of sight...
Scots at first tested their new prosperity as cautiously as thin ice. They had been prosperous before. In the late 19th century, coal and iron built Glasgow into Britain's second largest city (a rank now contested by Birmingham), and Scots flocked down from their hill farms until a third of the whole population lived within 20 miles of Glasgow. When depression came in the 1930s, heavy industry closed down, and one of every three working Scots was unemployed. A group of Scottish businessmen resolved it should never happen again, and formed the Scottish Development Council to launch "industrial...
Britain's J. Arthur Rank put up part of the cash, Castellani put together his company, including Cameraman Robert Krasker-who in Henry V matched Shakespeare's morning language with an early wonder in his light and color-and the youngest Romeo (26-year-old Laurence Harvey) and Juliet (20-year-old Susan Shentall) of recent date. For seven months the cameras pored over the choice beauties of Venice, Verona, Siena, and several smaller cities of the golden age. What they recorded is a living image-the curious mingling of the radiant with the sinister, the earthy beauty...
...commuter total since 1952, and many of this number have been the outstanding members who could get University support. While the move so fine for the individual concerned, it has had a depressing influence on Dudley's standing, evidenced by the steady decline in the Center's academic rank. Yet few commuters begrudge those who switch to a house "Good luck to them," is the general response, "I'd do the same if I could afford...
Military Service: Drafted in June 1942; commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry the next February, he was assigned to Europe, where he rose to the rank of major...