Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft's big day in the Midwest showed that his strength goes deeper than the professional politicians, that he. has a strong appeal to a large segment of the G.O.P. rank & file. It left no doubt that Taft is still in the race and running hard...
...building up the numbers, Hogben pointed out, earthlings won't necessarily use the decimal system, which originated from the fact that humans have ten fingers. They cannot assume that the Neighbors have ten fingers-or any fingers at all, for that matter. But some "rank system" is needed, so he suggests basing earth's numbers not on ten but twelve, which is handier mathematically, anyhow...
Unofficial calculations set the upper-half dividing line for all classes somewhere in group IV. Seniors, to be in the upper half, had to place in the top one eighth of the group; juniors, top three fifths; sophomores, upper seven-tenths; and freshmen, top nine-tenths. Rank within a group is determined by plus and minus grades...
...first course)...got an E. Those who took a second course did even better; they had 21% A's. 55% B's 19%, C's, 4% D's, and 1% E's. It must be remembered however," adds the committee, "that 48% of those who put down their Rank List Group were in groups...
...Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...