Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kostrellos '37 leads the 125-pounders with a record of but one defeat in Varsity competition. Undefeated as a Yardling mittman, Kostrellos boxed in the 115-pound rank two years ago. Bill Garrett is another 125 man but lacks the experience of his competitor...
...Music, in Religion and in Science, 1936 was barren of a Man or Woman of the Year. Typical was Mme Curie-Joliot, daughter of the late great discoverer of radium, who became in 1936 one of the first three women ever to reach French Cabinet rank. Not one of these proved an outstanding success and Mme Curie-Joliot, disgusted with what she saw of politics, soon resigned. No Einstein Theory shot meteoric across Science's sky, no deathless melody, canvas or sculpture won world acclaim...
...make up about half the number, the rest are Poles and Russians. Six are natives of Palestine which has several competent music schools but welcomes the new orchestra as its only permanent symphony. So many first-desk musicians are playing in it that critics expect the Palestine Symphony to rank soon among the first four orchestras in the world. Impresario Huberman is proud to have engaged for the forthcoming season such guest artists as Violinist Adolf Busch and Cellist Pablo Casals. After Toscanini takes the orchestra to Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria this season, Issay Dobrowen, former conductor...
...When the U. S. entered the World War Leon Fraser, then 25 and a professor of public law at Columbia University, enlisted as a private. After landing in France he was a major and later became first assistant judge advocate in the Service of Supply with the rank of major. Out of the War with numerous decorations, Leon Fraser sprouted as an international lawyer amid Reparations and War Debts. His success as counsel to the U. S. bigwigs in the Dawes and Young Plan negotiations led to his appointment as vice president and director of the Bank for International Settlements...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...