Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henley regatta was held in a blaze of sunshine again this year. It is the finest function of the year to those who know it, although it does not rank with Ascot and Cowes in the debutantes programme. Cambridge crews were victorious in three events, and Cambridge blazers everywhere in evidence on the bank. The Diamond sculls, held by a German, have gone to Switzerland now. The rowing world hopes it will be able to welcome an American crew next year to the regatta. But the rowing is only a part of Henley; there are meetings of old rowing...
...Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns a railroad, lumber tracts, coal mines, chemical works, charcoal plants. It has a large fleet of Great Lakes freighters. Normally it is also a producer of pig iron. But first & foremost Cleveland-Cliffs is a miner of iron ores. Its ore reserves in Minnesota rank second only to those of U. S. Steel Corp. And for that if no other reason Cleveland-Cliffs is a highly desirable property in any steelman's eyes. Whenever steel mergers are rumored, its name is sure...
...husband of the Premier's daughter and favorite child Edda. With these kin of the Dictator doing their bit, Cabinet members were informed that they are not exempt from answering when their military classes are called, will "fight as privates" unless previous war experience entitles them to higher rank...
...octagonal, ornate Cathedral of St. Ghiorghis. He took off his wing-tipped sport shoes, padded into the gold-veiled sanctuary. Empress Waizeru Menen, who dearly loves the Christian solace of confession, and 70 plump brown Ethiopian ladies entered the Cathedral by another door. In concentric circles according to rank squatted court functionaries, deacons, laymen, foreign missionaries and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert. With rain beating monotonously outside, there arose the sound of bells and, from the sanctuary, the clash of cymbals and the jingle of sistra. Then began a two-hour mass, chanted in a long...
Daughter of a successful engineer who had adjusted himself to Westernization, Shidzué was educated at the Peeresses' School, where little Japanese princesses, even in their games, never forgot their rank or the distinction of their families. Shidzué's mother played the part of a samurai's wife as if giving a theatrical performance. Training her daughter in ancient Japanese graces, she made Shidzué study the difficult tea ceremony, saw to it that she mastered the intricate technique of flower arrangement. Shidzué felt about these instructions much as a Western child might feel about...