Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale, however, shows her true-blue colors and remains lily white. Scorning these wicked temptations, she remains standing 'neath the banners of amateurism and the hundred thousand dollar oil broadcast. Harvard and Princeton may desert to the armies of rank professionals: but she, for one, will not place the tremendous over-emphasis on football which the extra days entail...
...Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood, struggling to piece together an air rearmament program which will satisfy Government critics when the subject comes up in Commons this week, the loss of Adviser Lord Weir was more than compensated for. Lord Nuffield, Britain's top-rank motor manufacturer, announced that he was ending his two-year quarrel with the Air Ministry. Lord Nuffield, long at loggerheads with Lord Swinton, will place his mammoth Morris auto plant, the largest in Europe, at the Government's disposal for the mass production of airframes. The motor magnate had previously turned out only tanks...
Married. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne; and Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher; in Budapest. Like his cousin, Archduke Carlos (see above), Albrecht's marriage (his second) cost him his royal rank...
Even today few piano accordion squeezers rank as virtuosos. But this week, after an accordion recital in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music, Philadelphia critics admitted that their townsman, dark, 30-year-old Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing...
...dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three of his ten books-Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God-among the minor English classics...