Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
...most war-minded country in the world might be the one which is spending most today on Rearmament, and last week statisticians of the Foreign Policy Association figured that the latest rearmament budgets of the Great Powers entitle the Bolsheviks to rank first...
...Class of '64) on acres of gleaming new buildings, helping Capitalist Edward Stephen Harkness to house Yale's some 2,500 undergraduates in nine new Colleges, President Angell has meanwhile skillfully husbanded Yale's manpower, pushed its graduate schools of Law and Medicine into the first rank. James Rowland Angell, a University of Michigan graduate who reached Yale from the Carnegie Corporation, was the first modern Yale president not an alumnus, but Yalemen were unanimously ready to vote that no Yaleman could have done better...
After one of the briefest inspections in Westminster history. Judge West waved Spicypiece to the winning stall, did not bother to rank the rest. Said he afterward: "She came as close to perfection as one could ask." For Spicypiece's owner. Broker Stanley J. Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y., her win meant a double distinction. His Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, also a wire-haired terrier but no kin to Spicypiece, took best in show at Westminster in 1934. For young Peter Garvan there was solid consolation...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York was the first top-rank executive of the nation to call a venereal disease by its name. Said he: "Once the facts become generally known, the humanitarian appeal of syphilis will be fully as great, or even greater than that presented by any communicable disease...