Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient Hindu holy book, the Vishnu Purana, he could recall, says that the life of man will run in four cycles. The last is to be the Age of Kali. It closes in, says the book, when "society reaches a stage where property confers rank, wealth, becomes the only source of virtue, passion, the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion...
Curran's battle stategy was to make no deals with the opposition, to get his help from the rank & file. He hammered hard at his Communist opponents, battled hour-long heckling and gallery demonstrations, threatened to quit if the Communists got their...
Inspection of Hygiene Department records to determine the scope of the annual budget and the distribution of funds drawn from student $15 fees will rank as project number one of the new University Student Hygiene Committee, according to an announcement following last night's meeting of the group at Phillips Brooks House...
...went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed in his talk." One Thursday night, a kidding ventriloquist told Britton to "prepare...
Last week a furtive fugitive whose name was reported to be Gulishvili, whose rank was said to be lieutenant general in the Soviet Army and whose job was rumored to be chief of intelligence for the Russian zone of Austria, bobbed up in Paris. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance reported that Lieut. General Gulishvili was really Soviet General Chaparidze, and published his arresting account of Russia's military plans. Excerpts...