Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bardie '30 continues to rank above the regulars with a mark of .387, although his average has also suffered the effects of facing first rate pitchers, falling from his mark two weeks...
...only consistently fine but I think still hold all of the records for all classes of college racing and for all distances, which casts somewhat of a shadow on your statement. Some of Courtney's crews of our time or near it, deserve special mention because they rank among the great athletic teams of all times. The 1901 Varsity took advantage of unusually favorable water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants while interfered with in the first...
...Brown team which comes to Cambridge today does not rank with the strong Bruin nines of the past few years. Lack of veterans, particularly on the pitching staff, has considerably hampered the development of the visiting aggregation. Lingham will probably carry the mound assignment for the invaders...
...fertilizer project operated by the U. S. ¶ Passed the bill urged by Col. Lindbergh (opposed by Assistant Secretary of War Davison) to put Air Corps officers on a promotion list separate from other Army officers; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed a bill raising the Army rank of Dr. James F. Coupal, White House physician, from Major to Colonel. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to eradicate pink boll-weevils in cotton States; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed the Senate resolution authorizing $1,000,000 for a George Rogers Clark museum at Vincennes...
...only lately have potent business executives preferred to hire P. B. K. men. For example, Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., recently announced the results of a survey showing that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of P. B. K. rank] have four times the chance of those from the lowest third to stand in the highest tenth salary group" (TIME, April...