Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
...very likely that a few of the older players may be induced to compete for the team which is to play Yale, it will not necessarily follow that those who rank as first, second and third in the tournament will constitute the team...
...died at his home in Cincinnati, after an illness of a year and a half. In the spring of '94 he rowed upon his class crew; in the following summer he was taken ill with diabetes from which he never recovered. He took a high rank in his studies and was a member of the Engineering. Society. His open-hearted generosity and frankness, and earnest, upright life won him many friends and the esteem of all who know...
There are, however, two weak points. The thoroughness of the leaders does not always appear in the club debates of the rank and file. Furthermore, a far worse failing, there is a strange neglect of voice training. In spite of the efforts of Mr. Hayes to cultivate the power of skilful voice modulation, of a forcible and graceful manner, few of the men here can force home their thought-material with the delivery which it deserves...
...founded by Nicholas Boylston, John Quincy Adams, Rev. Joseph McKean. Edward Tynel Channing, Francis J. Child and Adams Sherman Hill. Of Professor Hill Mr. Wendell says that he has established the study of Rhetoric and English which he found one of secondary importance, as one of the first academic rank...