Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonel, whose rank rests in Kentucky rather than the Army, inherited the bulk of his fortune in 1918 from his sister, widow of fabulous John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who made money on barbed wire and risked as much as $150,000 a night at the faro table. Some of the inheritance Baker invested in profitable local real estate, e.g., a bank, the Baker Hotel. The bulk he put to work helping his home town. Samples of his largess...
...fellow ESPPs, who bristled the court by admitting under cross-examination that they hated the Army. At trial's end the three-man court deliberated six hours, found the ten defendants guilty, fined them $25 each, restricted them to post for 25 days, demoted each one grade in rank. The Chemical Center's 400 ESPPs were incensed but silent; Old Armymen were openly delighted. Said one: "Maybe now these boys will get over the idea that this is a college campus...
...rising in Hamburg, historically one of the least martial-minded of German cities. And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...
...been awarded to Russian Physicists Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor I. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. Without a trace of embarrassment over its inconsistency, Soviet officialdom beamed, and nobody charged (as they had with Pasternak) that it would amount to accepting a "handout" from "the enemy." All three Russians rank high in the esteem of,the outside world as well as in the Soviet scientific hierarchy. Dr. Tamm is often rated as the leading Soviet nuclear physicist, represented Russia at the recent Geneva conference on technical means for detecting atomic explosions...
...Form. The biggest pattern buyers are now women in families with incomes above $7,500. Millions of women now rank sewing as their No. 1-and often only-hobby. "There's a whole new climate," says Simplicity's Shapiro. "They do it as an art form...