Word: outranks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private boarding schools, despite their social amenities and allegedly tougher curricula, take a scholastic back seat to high schools. Research made public this week by a Grant Study anthropologist reveals that College students with a high school background consistently outrank their private school counterparts...
Also shown by the report were large increases in the popularity of romance language offerings, and corresponding decreases in classics fields. Latin Ba, with 37, is the largest classics subject, while romance language courses French Ca, with 145, and Spanish 1a with 102, far outrank...
...that you will remember for many years, Margaret Webster's production of "The Tempest" achieves magnificent effects of gravity and spectacle. Shakespeare's great comedy offers controversial problems in staging and interpretation; the current effort has successfully surmounted them with polish and understanding, for a result that will probably outrank "Othello" in popular appeal...
Pragmatism and Polygamy. Though Europe's universities outrank the U.S.'s in Nigerian esteem, Orizu heard American universities praised by a fellow countryman, came to the U.S. in 1939, at Ohio State took his degree in government with honors, proceeded to an M.A. at Columbia. Through his American Council on African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools...
Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank...