Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role of policeman to the world, and in one bold step advanced into the nuclear age, where its troops will be fewer, its weapons deadlier, and its costs lower. In doing so, Britain almost gratefully abandoned its claim, which has sounded increasingly hollow even to British ears, to rank with the world's two major military powers...
...Norman had risen to the top rank of Canada's professional diplomatic corps. He was serving as acting permanent delegate to the United Nations in New York when his name cropped up in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then headed by Nevada Democrat Pat McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel...
...when the Depression shrank the fur business; Tenor Tucker turned to singing when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular first-rank performers. Tucker is now the best tenor in the business, and Warren grand opera's top baritone...
...second brother, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, had turned to sculpture and in only a dozen-odd works advanced to the front rank of early 20th century sculptors before his death in 1918, at 42, of blood poisoning contracted at the front. His crowning achievement is The Horse, combining in one sculptural metaphor both horse and machine...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced last week that five authorities in the fields of anthropology and social relations attain the rank of full professor as of July first...