Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Municipal Government. Embellished with photographs of Chicago's wonders (including five of Ed Kelly), tables purporting to show that Chicago's per-capita government cost was $53.57 compared to New York's $91.78, Boston's $88.26, it concluded that Chicago "stands in the front rank for economic administration of governmental affairs and for high calibre of public service." Most effective thing about The Truth was its sponsor, a high-sounding something called the Citizens' Committee on Public Information...
Certainly many Red army officers who served under him in the Far East were purged. One good reason why Russia showed little enthusiasm for the Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...
...East, the No. 1 team last week appeared to be the University of Pittsburgh, whose backfield of Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo, is rated one of the best of all time. For several seasons Coach Jock Sutherland has been trying to fashion an outfit that would rank with Pitt's famed undefeated eleven of 1915, on which he played. This year he thinks...
...Most important sex factors in marriage (but less important than personality and background factors) are the relative strength of a husband's and wife's sex drive and ability of a wife to experience sexual satisfaction. But many marriages in which other psychological adjustments are satisfactory rank in the highest category of happiness despite the wife's failure in the latter respect. One wife in three rarely or never reaches such enjoyment. Only one in five always does so. This failure causes the husband unhappiness almost as often as the wife. If this failure is not overcome...
...Franklin Weber. One, taken in 1899 when he was a bike racer good enough to be called "The Pride of Milwaukee," showed him crouched over his pedals in a striped jersey. The other two were taken surreptitiously in recent years, after the short-tempered "Pride of Milwaukee" attained front rank among U. S. tycoons...