Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masses of the world are far ahead of their leaders, I believe, in this subject. I believe it is the massed opposition of the rank & file against war that offers the greatest possible hope that there shall...
...Margaret Truman stepped into the Pump Room of Chicago's Ambassador Hotel, fresh from Hollywood and her radio acting debut, the headwaiter led her to Table No. 1 with a respectful flourish. The last time Margaret had rated only Table No. 11. The reason for the rise in rank, the hotel explained: Miss Truman is no longer just a President's daughter and a singer; she is now a radio and television actress...
Ever since the 13th Century, when they started to build it, the people of the French city of Rouen have taken a mighty pride in their gothic cathedral. Architecturally, it is too much of a hodgepodge to rank with the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens or Reims. But Rouen's delicately detailed Butter Tower,* fine sculptures and stained glass are among the prides of France. The largest of its great bells was named for Joan of Arc, who was brought to Rouen for imprisonment and trial, was burned in 1431 near the cathedral in Rouen's market place...
Oliver Twist (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), delayed for two years in its U.S. showing because of pressure-group charges that it fosters antiSemitism, can be seen at last by U.S. moviegoers for what it is: a brilliant, fascinating movie, no less a classic than the Charles Dickens novel which it brings to life. Indeed, in mirroring Dickens and his illustrator, Cruikshank, the picture is faithful to a fault-hence the ruckus. Its faithfully repulsive portrait of Fagin offended some Jewish groups, who protested that the film would drum up anti-Semitism and succeeded in blocking its U.S. release (TIME...
...would not effect the Group IV rank list scholarship requirement or the scholastic standing of the college. It would, on the contrary, be an extremely welcome expansion of the current program of beneficiary aid in a manner that would be completely in keeping with traditional regulation of the College...