Word: outranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inconsistent and the first team succeeded in piercing the Bates line for only 12 yards in the first period. In the waning minutes of the first half, however, they riddled the Bobcats for 174 yards. Most of this yardage was a contribution of the second team, which seemed to outrank the A outfit on the ground. Harvard could not gain regularly through the boys from Lewiston, and Coach Casey will probably concentrate on running plays this week. On the offense Bates tacklers often sifted through the Harvard line and nabbed the runners from behind, but the Bobcats could make little...
...none of which will perpetuate his memory as a national legislator. His only worthwhile committee is Appropriations and two other Democrats (Carter Glass and Kenneth McKellar) are in line ahead of him for the chair should the Senate go Democratic. On the Commerce Committee three Democrats. all his juniors, outrank him. At the last session his principal activity was government aid for cattle tick eradication and a merchant marine school at New Orleans...
...fortility of thought and ideas, few outrank Dr. Frederick Jackson Turner, professor emeritus of Harvard, as a dynamic force in the field of American History. His recent death has ended a career of far-reaching influence through-out the United States...
Disappointed at the selection were friends of Maj.-Generals John Leonard Hines, William Lassiter, Hanson Edward Ely, Fred Winchester Sladen, William Ruthven Smith, who all outrank General MacArthur in seniority and who all will retire within 18 months, never to have a chance to be full generals. The proud & pleased friends of General MacArthur pointed out that his youth is an advantage, that since the office was created in 1903 seven Chiefs of Staff have been advanced to it over their seniors' heads...
Unlike General Dawes M. Briand does not hold that an embassy is or should be "secondary"' in comparison with a chamber of commerce. He would deplore that a department of commerce should gradually outrank a state department. The trump M. Briand shook down his rumpled sleeve last week is a big red Ace of Diplomacy. But the stakes?a diplomat always plays for stakes?are Commerce...