Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race is run annually not only to determine the college championship but to rank the candidates for the University ski team. It is, however, for from a final ranking of the team, as several of the members idd not participate...
Despite this puree of parties and conflicting internal programs, the winning ticket last week got off to an effective start. In rapid succession it: 1) pardoned all Nacistas arrested for their abortive Putsch; 2) demanded and got the resignations of seven top-rank army leaders, among them the commander-in-chief as well as the head of the civil guards responsible for the bloody suppression of the Nacistas; 3) received the routine resignations of 15 ambassadors; 4) submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a decree permitting former President Alessandri to leave Chile for "a rest" in Europe, despite a Constitutional...
...church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...lowly, cross-eyed little flatworms called planarias are highly regarded by zoologists, for they are the "lowest" animals in evolutionary rank which possess a definite head, right and left side, top and bottom, front and rear. Though it has no backbone, the flatworm is tenacious of life. If it is decapitated, the head will grow a new body, the body a new head. If the head is divided by a longitudinal cut toward the tail, each part will become a complete new head, making a two-headed monster. If part of a flatworm's head is removed and grafted...
Because such images are her best accomplishment, Kay Boyle takes rank as a vivid poetaster...