Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book of unusual and compelling photographs, which really show the problem we face in Asia and in most of the world outside the Atlantic community. Firmly stated, the problem is how to take "consistent, practical, concrete action" that will "demonstrate in unmistakable terms our concern for the rank and file of humanity, and our willingness to help them build a better life...
...seven centuries of jurisdictional thrust and parry, the House of Commons has whittled away the executive prerogatives of the British monarchy, broken the House of Lords to the rank of a disregarded auxiliary, and concentrated in its own hands the two branches of government which the Constitution of the U.S. most carefully separates: executive and legislative. In Britain, the House of Commons is omnicompetent. By a simple majority vote, it makes changes in the unwritten British constitution, and expands or contracts the liberties of the British people. And as leader of the majority party in Parliament, the British Prime Minister...
...lower-middle-class origins as fast as the bicycle of English letters would carry him. Katherine was pedaling too-from her native New Zealand and an unhappy marriage. She had written her first short stories, the haunting, plot-shy evocations of children, moods and places that would eventually rank her close to Chekhov...
History and Economics retained their second and third positions in popularity, with 11.6 and 11.5 percent of the College, respectively. In the field of Social Relations, 9.3 percent or 316 students are enrolled, giving it fourth rank...
Next come English, with 298 men; Biology, with 237; Biochemical Sciences, 179; Physics, 121; History and Lit, 117; Chemistry, 104; and in the eleventh rank, Mathematics, with...