Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally, I do not believe Madison's comfortably situated sports editors could be persuaded by any amount of eloquence to accept jobs in Wisconsin's athletic department, where even professorial rank is no guarantee of security...
...really fine actors in Hollywood and even though he seems to have risen above his normal performance in "The Petrified Forest," we rather expect it of him. The really good news from this picture is that Bette Davis is capable of taking her place in the same top rank with Howard. Their acting alone would make it imperative that the picture be recommended, but even higher praise is due when the rest of the cast is above the usual level of mediocrity among the minors...
Besides these notable concerts, another most interesting one is to take place at Jordan Hall on Wednesday evening, namely the joint recital of Beatrice Harrison, the famous English cellist, and Henri Deering, American pianist. Both of these are artists of the first rank and there is every reason to believe that the occasion will be a most satisfying one. The program combines the virtues of the new and the old and includes the Brahms Sonata in E minor for Cello and Piano and a recent Sonata for Cello and Piano by Arnold Bax, receiving its first American performance on Wednesday...
Before most Japanese were awake the nerve centres of their capital were thus in the hands of some 1,000 Army men, of whom the two highest in rank were one Captain Teruzo Ando and one Captain Shiro Nonaka. The dastards were most considerate of foreigners, not a single one of whom was molested in all Japan during last week's amazing 81 hours...
...Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege"; 3) Past Commander Frank Belgrano of the American Legion: ''He betrayed the idealism and patriotism of the rank & file of American Legion members"; 4) Father Coughlin: "He employs his sacred office to spread confusion, misunderstanding and falsehood...