Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rope Dealer. Into this leadership vacuum has blown a tornado from the Southwest, a Texas-size (6 ft. 3 in., 204 Ibs.) hunk of perpetual motion named Lyndon Baines Johnson. To rank & file Democrats outside his own state of Texas, he is little more than a familiar name. But as minority leader of the U.S. Senate, moving around the Senate floor and into the Capitol Hill conference rooms, he has become the key U.S. Democrat as of June...
...been stretching a point when he called the big grey "the first great horse I ever owned." After the Preakness, which Native Dancer won by a neck, this verdict was modified: the Dancer was a fine horse, but he would have to show more before he could be ranked with the Man o' Wars, Citations and Whirlaways. Last week, in the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, racing's most exacting test for three-year-olds, the Dancer proved his right to rank with the best...
Tonight at 8:30 (J. Arthur Rank; Continental Distributing Inc.), Noel Coward's 1936 play series, has already yielded two better-grade British movies, Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart. Now three more of the original nine short plays have been transferred to the screen in a richly Technicolored episodic movie. Directed by Anthony (The Rocking Horse Winner) Pelissier, who was a featured player in the stage version, the picture is sometimes long on talk and short on the high sparkle that Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence gave it in the theater, but it is a faithful, well...
Agriculture: "Our agricultural exports last year were so low and our agricultural imports so high that we were able to cover only 53% of these imports by exports . . . There is a frightening gap between French agricultural prices and those of most European countries . . . We rank tenth in wheat yield per acre...
Some English critics have classed Musil with James Joyce and Marcel Proust. Judging by the translated section, this is too much praise. Musil lacks Joyce's verbal liveliness and inventiveness, Proust's sensitivity to the most subtle gradations of social rank. More important, he lacks the creative spontaneity and abundance which mark their work. Where they were artists who sometimes felt a need to write as philosophers, Musil reads like a philosopher who felt a need to write as an artist...