Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the ages, counts, princes and marquises have flourished and multiplied in Italy like olive trees. In the Italian view, a fancy title, like oil on a lettuce leaf, lends zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
...substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...
...Under the law creating the rank, a five-star general or admiral is, in effect, permanently on active duty...
...defense ministers. Would he accept? "I'll not do anything to try to duck the job," he said. "The President knows that I am ... always ready to do what I am called upon to do. That's why they gave some of us old soldiers permanent rank*-so that we could be called back when we were needed...
When Andrew Carnegie put up the first $1,000,000 to start a school in Pittsburgh, ais objective was on the modest side. His first aim was merely to help the sons of his steelworkers to learn a skill or a trade. But the school collected a first-rank faculty, and Steelmaster Carnegie raised his sights. By the time he died in 1919, his school had become a full-fledged institute of technology...