Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican), Lausche at one point had announced that he would skip the embarrassments of the opening session. But it struck him that playing hooky would rob him of seniority in a body where tenure is next to godliness. Provided that he was on hand for the first session, his rank as an ex-governor would give him seniority over two other new Democrats: Pennsylvania's ex-Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, and Idaho's Frank Church, 32, holding his first elective office. By alphabetical precedence he would also outrank the other ex-governor among new Democrats: Georgia...
...should be. In fact, some of it is poor. Also our research is not as good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong. But the social sciences are weak. We have been grossly inadequate in our work in anthropology. We are practically...
Rough Time. Against State last week, McGuire's troops moved the ball with such polished skill, shot with such consistent effect that they more than backed up his boast that Carolina teams rank with the best collegiate teams around. "We're all rough at home," says McGuire, ruefully reflecting on the unpleasant truth that North Carolina's teams knock each other off so consistently that their won-lost records suffer and they tend to slump in the national rankings. "But we can take any outsider. Any visiting team that comes down this way has a rough time...
...Lord's on My Side (Jimmy Wakely; Decca). Against some strong competition, this number may rank as the year's most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...
...California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...