Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student of the Week: Priscilla Holmes, 29, who last week became the first woman ever elected to the Harvard Law Review. A graduate of Swarthmore, Priscilla is one of 40 women taken into the law school since 1950, in her first year pulled down an A average. Her rank in the class of '55: 20th out of 501 students...
Democrat. After a three-year hitch in the Marine Corps (reaching the rank of sergeant), he returned to report for the Reno Gazette and double as staff correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle...
...science were meant for each other. In the church we find the feminine element of life in its perfection . . . Yet the church as a human institution suffers the temptations of its state, les défauts de ses qualités: the temptation to timidity, the temptation to rank custom above life and obedience above prudence. Modern science is a masculine element, inquisitive, daring, critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature and even for things themselves, feeling strangely dissatisfied in the very...
Like Chips, the story opens with the hero well on in years and quietly resigned to his own mediocrity. Charles Anderson has the rank of a first secretary in the British Foreign Service and the fate of an also-ran in life. He is a bit stuffy, oldfashioned, well-liked, fond of making mildly witty remarks and coated with "a thin crust of mannerism." At the beginning of Chapter Two comes the flashback. Charles is seen as a boy, at Brookfield, where his master is the original Mr. Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles...
...slow coming together of both big workers' parties-Socialists and Communists-at least on the bread & butter issue. The Reds talked boldly of a new "popular front" which would force the vacationing National Assembly to reconvene, and though the Socialist leaders hung back, many of their rank & file were tempted. France's bristling barriers between left and right were once again hardening...