Word: outranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peripatetic, traveling between the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. As it goes, its criteria must change, for until a few years ago St. Thomas and St. Croix had separate assemblies, separate laws. St. Thomas, for example, does not provide capital punishment for murder. Civil cases (including probate) outrank criminal cases two to one. Contract claims and damages run in hundreds rather than thousands of dollars, but last week a new vista opened for lawing in the Virgin Islands. A soda water manufacturer and a merchant on St. Croix reported bringing in two oil wells, the Virgin...
...economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly. He will outrank the Premier himself and all his Cabinet members, and his orders are to be obeyed...
...Fellows. In other words, when the plan is working at full capacity at least 1-5 of the College will be brilliant scholars, rating Group II or above. This put together with the greater amount of research planned should make Harvard a preeminent institution scholastically, and it should further outrank every other University in the country...
...When the stockholders reassembled, four Phelps Dodge directors were elected directors of United Verde, and Louis Shattuck Gates, president of Phelps Dodge, became president of United Verde. With United Verde's annual production capacity of 68,000 tons to add to its own 168,000, Phelps Dodge will outrank Anaconda Copper in size, become second biggest U. S. copper company. Biggest: Kennecott...
Fuad the First would considerably outrank most Americans in official life, in education. He speaks three languages fluently. He is not overly fat but, like most Egyptians, is heavy according to American standards. He compares favorably with other rulers of the East and Near East in sagacity and desire to rule his subjects fairly. By your informant's own admission, the King has not had a free hand to do as he chose...