Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman had two major generals and a rear admiral (average age: 51) as his White House military aides. Ike's aides, named last week, are younger men (average age: 37) of lower rank: a commander, a lieutenant colonel, a major...
...flying 1953 start with some 30 new shows open last week. Gallerygoers could choose to see almost anything from mild Bermuda landscapes to bleak views of the Arctic or carvings from the Congo. But the standout exhibition was home-town work: 119 paintings by two Greenwich Village women who rank among the top U.S. artists. Both are considered abstractionists, but the term covers a lot of ground and their paintings are as different as cumulus and calculus...
Harry S. Truman will probably rank in the category of near-great Presidents and his administration will stand out as one of the most important in American history, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, yesterday predicted...
Hawkins is undefeated in the two Yardling meets this year. He is currently the top breaststroke swimmer in the British Empire. He finished tenth in the Olympic games last summer, the youngest man to rank so high...
...Horace Ashenfelter, 29, Olympic steeplechase champion, who got the Sullivan Trophy as "the amateur athlete . . . who did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." A rank outsider in pre-race ratings, Ashenfelter pulled off the biggest upset of the Olympics when he beat Russia's Record-Holder Vladimir Kasantsev in Olympic-record time...