Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wake up Harvard and cut out the clowning and talk about the most serious things in life, such as unemployment and taxation. Oh, no, Dear Harvard would not talk on that because the rank and file might then seek the 'truth...
...gives several excellent series in Symphony Hall in Boston as well as a series of eight concerts in Sanders Theatre in Cambridge which is primarily for Harvard men. Some very fine chamber music can be occasionally heard in these parts as well as recitals by artists of the first rank, which are more common phenomena. Late in the winter, the Metropolitan Opera Company comes to Boston for approximately one week
...colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince of the German principality of Lippe conferred on "Benno's" mother and her descendants the princely title of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Previously in 1909 he had elevated her to the rank of Countess Biesterfeld...
...risked by a Prince Consort from a foreign land who must always be more or less suspect of trying to influence his wife and Queen. For undertaking cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort of 200,000 florins ($136,000) per year. Britain's Queen Victoria, who proposed to her Albert, secured for him as Prince Consort, after much wrangling in the House of Commons, a civil list...
...addressed the "Various Aspects of Biology" section of the Biological Sciences symposium on "The Influence of Chemical Thought on Biology," won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1929. He is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is recognized as one of the very top rank of biochemists throughout the world...