Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Titular Rank. Finally at week's end came an announcement from the Vatican: Archbishop Charbonneau's resignation-had been accepted "for reasons of health" and he had been named titular Archbishop of Bosphorus...
...unusual but not unheard-of practice in the church. Resignation from an administrative or ecclesiastical function usually does not change the priest's church status or his hierarchical rank...
Cherington expressed the opinion that the column was not directed against him, but was meant to incriminate the members of the Commission by their association with him. The headline of the column read: "Democratic Rank and File Might Get Jolt If They Knew Company Leaders Keeping...
...very large quantities can be used. Uranium bombs must not be too big or they will explode spontaneously. Hydrogen bombs would suffer from no such limit. Theoretically, a single bomb filling a whole ship could be exploded in an unsuspecting enemy's harbor. Such an explosion would rank as an astronomical event...
...ours-where we are more insistent than are other cultures that sex have in it mutual affection, a sense of belonging and a sharing of on-going purpose-the ideal of premarital chastity has more significance than it has in a society where the orgasm is elevated to the rank of supreme good...