Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week were some 1,500 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, home from Korea for a 30-day leave.* In her hold were the bodies of 52 men, the first of the dead to be brought back from Korea. They included men of all services, ranging in rank from private to major general (Bryant E. Moore, who had commanded the IX Corps...
...Magnet [J. Arthur Rank; Universal) is a slow, pleasant British comedy that examines the mind of a ten-year-old boy. Like the boy in The Fallen Idol, The Magnet's hero (William Fox) is the victim of his childishly dramatized interpretation of overheard conversations and the mysterious conduct of adults. While the police look for him to give him a medal for an unwitting civic good deed, he fears that he is being hunted down as a thief and possibly a murderer. His psychiatrist father (Stephen Murray) smugly assures his worried wife (Kay Walsh) that their...
...after graduation. The poll, which was made at spring registration, shows that law is the top choice of the class of '51, followed by medicine. Of 1,018 seniors who were asked, 753 returned their questionnaires, and 108 of the indicated that they wanted to be lawyers. Both professions rank ahead of manufacturing and production, which top the list of non-professional jobs...
There is also the problem of keeping the churchgoers of the U.S. abreast of their leadership. Says Sherrill: "At the moment, the ecumenical movement is too much a movement of the leaders rather than the rank & file. The National Council is stronger than the state councils, which are stronger than the local councils, which are stronger than the ministerial associations. The important thing at first is to get all the agencies to feel that they are members of one team...
Dick Button is favored to retain his North American title this weekend when 30 top-rank figure skaters from Canada and the United States compete in Calgary, Alberta, in the men's and women's divisions. Button has won the world championship for four years...