Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boatner expected some trouble from the swaggering, defiant North Korean officers of Compound 66, but after he had taken representatives from the enclosure on a tour of the blood-spattered ruins of Compound 76, the officers marched out in orderly ranks, five abreast. As a reward for obedience and a mark of respect for their rank, Boatner ordered the machine-guns on the watchtowers turned skyward during the transfer. Only one North Korean officer stepped out of ranks; he identified himself as an antiCommunist...
...mind Given three choices abandoning intercollegiate football, as Chicago did, converting to a professional beef trust, or maintaining an amateur policy--the University has chosen the middle course. It will continue the attempt to attract the scholar-athlete, although this attempt may already have been made futile by the rank professionalism existing on today's latercollegiate gridirons...
...clerk in the National Bank of Commerce in New York City, and later became a partner with Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Co. In the early days of the war he served as special assistant to the secretary of war. Later, he served as a pilot and achieved the rank of Lt. Commander. Lovett is also a member of the board of trustees of the Carneige Foundation for the advancement of teaching...
...artist almost unknown before her death in 1939. Even six years ago, when a memorial show of her work was held in London, the critical reaction was guarded. This time the critics took a second look. Wrote John Russell in the Sunday Times: "The judgment of history . . . will rank Miss John as one of the rare, complete individuals among women painters." Said Sir John Rothenstein, director of the Tate: "She is the best woman painter who has ever painted in England...
...until April were the exact rank-list figures released. The class found that they had only 246 men 26 percent--on probation. Nine percent made the Dean's List, but perhaps the most envied intellectual was Henry F. Williams--the only group one freshman. Coach Shaw immediately selected his top 20 aspirants...