Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses given by Allen Tate, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, rank second and third...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
...shrewdness, bravery and romanticism of such escapades Nelson wore through life like his own elegant uniforms. He served as a ship's captain at 20, and soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his comrades.) He lost the sight of his right eye as a result of a wound suffered during the siege of Calvi on Corsica, and his arm storming the fortified town of Tenerife with a force of sailors in longboats...
While French governments form and fall, while France tries to halt its descent among the world powers, the Louvre holds its rank at the top of the world's art museums. Even as demonstrators paraded through the streets of Paris earlier this month, the Louvre's attendance rolled on at a steady 3,000 a day. Nothing short of war or revolution will keep the crowds below 5,000 a day at the peak of the tourist season in mid-August. Nowhere on earth is there another edifice dedicated to man's delight in art that...
...major antirecession move, the nation's largest steel producer last week plunked down another hefty bet on the future. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to raise $300 million through debentures in mid-July. The bond offering will rank among the largest ever made by an industrial firm, equaling Big Steel's in 1954 and issues floated by General Motors in 1953 and General Electric in 1956. Said Robert C. Tyson, chairman of Big Steel's Finance Committee: "The purpose of this is to add money to our funds to restore working capital that we have used...