Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third rank juniors and sophomores were the only dean's list groupings that didn't top comparative figures for the winter torm of 1948-49. All other dean's list markings showed College-wide increases over last year's figures...
...much-decorated combat veteran he would be eligible to retire with the rank of rear admiral (but with captain's pay), a special provision which only the Navy & Marines enjoy...
...Delhi has promised the princes "the continuances of their rights, dignities and privileges." These include ceremonial salutes (9 to 21 guns, depending on rank and custom), the use of red automobile license plates, and the right to be called Your Highness. Each prince is allowed one palace for everyday living and a second palace at a seashore or hill resort. The fattest purse goes to the Nizam of Hyderabad, fabled richest man in the world, who gets 5,000,000 rupees a year. The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village...
...Arthur Rank's London Films Company has made another first-rate movie. It transforms to the screen Terence Rattigan's successful play about the fight to clear the Winslow boy of unjust forgery and robbery charges which led to expulsion from the Admiralty Naval College...
...involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults...