Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman sits at the head of the U-shaped table and the others spread out from him, taking care that guests and Senior Fellows do not sit side by side but interspersed among the Junior Fellows. No lines of age or rank are recognized...
...Dave Beck affair and its subsidiary scenarios challenge not only the leadership of trade unionism but labor's rank and file to scrutinize their standards anew." The words took a special sting from the newscaster who flung them: Edward P. Morgan, 46, whose nightly 15 minutes on ABC radio (7 p.m., E.S.T.) is sponsored, as his announcer puts it. by "15 million Americans"-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Along with an outspoken but responsible way of using the freedom given by his sponsor and network, veteran Newsman Morgan combines a pleasant delivery with writing and reporting skill unusual...
Oberlin, Swarthmore, Carleton (Minn.), and Reed (Ore.) rank as the best co-educational colleges. The Tribune listed Barnard, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, and Smith behind Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe as the leading women's colleges...
...Liberals, the New York Yankees of Canadian politics, controlled 167 of the House of Commons' 265 seats at dissolution, rank as odds-on favorite to stretch their 21-year rule by another four-or five-year term. They are presiding over an economy throbbing with prosperity and boasting a $282 million budget surplus, their ninth surplus in ten years. In the last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly...
...only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable comeback. Today KLM's 160,000 miles of routes to 124 cities in 74 countries rank it as the world's third airline in international passenger traffic (after Pan American and British Overseas Airways Corp.), the second in international cargo...