Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week's offering of the Brattle Theater Company is, for the most part, a finished and sometimes brilliant production. The play itself has received the distinction in some quarters of being among the best of modern drama. Although I cannot rank it so highly, the play remains a very delightful, if vaguely formulated piece, and it contains one very masterful characterization...
...Valpey's decision to leave Cambridge makes painfully clear the confusion of Harvard's athletic program. The fact that a man might even consider leaving a school with the prestige and rank of Harvard to coach at Connecticut ought to drive home the unpleasant fact that we have no athletic policy as any level in Cambridge. There is no need for Harvard to go professional in its athletics; but to disregard completely the forces which are acting on intercollegiate athletics is to be guilty of self-inflicted blindness...
...FRANCE, the Socialists still rank as third largest party (behind the Popular Republicans and Communists). But their parliamentary strength has declined...
...eight years that had then passed since expropriation, Mexico's aging equipment ingeniously held together with baling wire had barely managed to keep established wells producing; hardiy anything had been done in the way of new exploration and drilling. With cabinet rank to help him make needed changes and deal firmly with the high-riding, left-wing oil union, Bermúdez brought in 51 producing wells in 1947 and 83 more the following year. In 1949, Pemex added 180 new wells to bring national production to an estimated 60 million barrels for the year...
Time for a Reckoning. Tacho gave him the presidential medal, appointed him an honorary cabinet member, and promoted him to general, a rank previously held only by himself. "If you're the only other general in the country," Tacho is supposed to have said when pinning on the stars, "I'm safe...