Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Dr. Townsend arrived at a matter which has lately rankled deep in his generous heart: "And now, my friends let ; admonish you against insidious and hurtful propaganda that may arise within your ranks. The very rapid development to our organization ... has made it inevitable that inefficiency and selfish ambition and even rank dishonesty should find lodgment among us Some [local] leaders...
...rank of captain, the "Founder...
...other changes in the line see the return of Bob Watson to first-rank rating at right tackle and the rise of Bob Downes to the corresponding position on the other side of the line...
...find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher, is a guard called Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played before. Were it not for his weight he would surely be in the front rank, for he is fast and quick on his feet and pulls out of the line as well as anyone on the field...
...Death drew nearer, the permanent civil servants of Britain's Foreign Office spoke of "Uncle Arthur" last week as destined to rank in history with Lord Salisbury, Grey of Fallodon and Curzon. To these civil servants, who have seen his League policies of Peace and Disarmament broken one by one and Mr. Henderson himself treated as an interloper at Geneva by his British successors, he was a great Foreign Secretary. When Death came at 8 p. m. on the Sabbath, London's Times said on Monday: "He was the embodiment of the qualities and aspirations of the Labor...