Word: rank
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Vetars will rank candidates in order of preference, and the top five from each district (except Quincy and Leverett Houses, which have six seats), will make up the 87 members of the council, Harvard's first funded student government...
...chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers last week could reassure themselves that U. S. writers still have a front rank and that he is still...
...unimpressive 61st in a class of 164, he excelled at little beyond football. As a young Army officer, he excelled at little beyond coaching the unit football team. World War I ended before Eisenhower could get to Europe, and in the shrunken interwar Army, he was stuck at the rank of major for 16 years. His career going nowhere, Eisenhower almost left the Army to become military-affairs editor of a newspaper chain...
...each family's social position is rigid. The Buks, peasants, are subservient to the Bukowskis, minor nobles who in turn serve the Lubonskis, major nobles (magnates). From the Tatar invasion in 1241 to the modern union negotiations, these three families appear, and each performs the task dictated by his rank. The Buks tend the horses of the Bukowskis, who fight fearlessly for the causes chosen by the Lubonskis...
...traditional, nor do they follow party lines. Although SET is masterminded by the conservative wing of the Republican Party and has some major business support from the likes of J. Ray Topper, president of Anchor Hocking, and W.R. Timken Jr. of Timken Co., it is also supported by the rank-and-file members of some labor unions. Leading the opposition is John Mahaney, the Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise $2 million to fight the repeal. Explains State...