Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came from Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler...
...convincing victory over the Lions would certainly rank the Crimson among the top contenders for the Ivy League crown, but a defeat or a narrow win would relegate the team to consideration as just another up-and-down Harvard eleven...
...racial tensions, juvenile delinquency, mental disease, communism in South America, poverty in Asia, nationalism in Africa, neutralism in Europe--to the extent that the country has tried to play the role of a complacent suburb in a revolutionary world, to just this extent, President Eisenhower's four years must rank not as mere consolidation, but dangerous regression...
...M.I.T. announced that it has reinstated Mathematician Dirk Struik to the rank of full professor. In 1951, when a Massachusetts grand jury indicted Struik for plotting the violent overthrow of the government, M.I.T. suspended him with full pay and without prejudice. Though the state later dropped its case, M.I.T. decided to carry on an investigation of its own. The gist of the faculty committee's findings: Struik has never made any secret of his Marxist views, but there is no proof that he has ever been a member of the Communist Party or that his beliefs have interfered with...