Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High Commissioner in London and Canadian Ambassador in Washington. Saw the birth of U.N. at Dumbarton Oaks (1944) and San Francisco (1945). In 1948, after winning a by-election in the rough & tumble riding of Algoma East (19,320 square miles) in north central Ontario, he took full cabinet rank as Secretary of State for External Affairs. Chairman NATO conference at Lisbon this year. Considered a good bet to be Canada's Prime Minister some...
...hysterics. But the youngsters couldn't quite put another one over. Penn's defense clicked in the pinches and there was no more scoring. Princeton's victory string, the longest of any major college team when the game began, was cut off at 24. Penn took rank with the best in the East, a heavy favorite for the Ivy League championship...
...admitted that Colgate's victories were not won easily. A combination of some breaks, plus a pretty strong defense has netted Colgate three victories. However, the Red Raiders, far from rampaging, have not yet actually been tested. Perhaps their defense will be able to stop Clasby and Culver, who rank two-three in Ivy League rushing yardage. And perhaps, the Raiders will have little trouble against the single-wing, an offense which they have not faced for 15 games. And further, Lahar may still retain his unblemished first-year record after he leaves the Stadium...
Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house." His proper rank was not finally settled until four years before he died, when Parliament at last made him officially Prince Consort. Easygoing Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is better liked by his wife's subjects and less bothered by form. Nonetheless, next June's Coronation is less than nine months away, and he needed to be put in his proper place. Last...
...such exception: the House of Lords, where Philip will still rank below the other Royal Dukes, Cornwall (his son), Gloucester, Windsor and Kent...