Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upset rank, but notable otherwise...
...impossible, says the Administration, pointing to the tailoring job it accomplished on the School of Education. There, by shifting the curriculum from a teachers training affair to the study of school administration, it both shriveled costs to manageable proportions and maintained the School's high rank in educational circles. Why not do the same with Divinity...
Sometimes the surge toward self-reliance bursts into the kind of truculence, resentment or restiveness that sets American taxpayers to muttering about rank ingratitude. In Britain, the yellow press makes cheap capital out of the so-called "G.I. problem," involving 35,000 U.S. servicemen manning U.S. bomber bases there. In Italy, a U.S. official reported that he could detect "by osmosis" that Italians are getting a little tired of U.S. advice...
Selling the plan to the union's rank & file was something else again. Several times Cage was bodily thrown out of locals' meetings. But he gradually won unionists over with his persuasive talk and flamboyant selling techniques, and some outside help. One union boss, who violently opposed the scheme, died a short time later, leaving his widow and children nothing but the $2,000 policy he had automatically received when his local signed up with Cage. Recalls Cage: "It made a big impression on his friends." After Cage had sold the unionists their two-thirds share...
Clasby and Culver rank one-three in Ivy rushing, fourth and second in Ivy scoring. Both have averaged more than five yards per try. And Clasby, moreover, leads the League with a punting average of 38 yards...