Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Piddling pedallers will have little chance to rank with the winners, if past races are any indications. Some cyclists have been practicing steadily, and Alexander K. Rupp '52 rode the course in 24 minutes yesterday...
...more than one undergraduate from a single academic department of the University is being considered for membership, the department is asked to rank its candidates...
...usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
...without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools of commerce and law rank high. Unlike most Southern colleges, W. & L. refuses to indulge its athletes, provides no athletic scholarships...
...Panova's characters is the old party rank & filer, now a commissar with a bleak smile and cold eye, who finds himself bewildered because, though he knows he shouldn't be, he is unhappy. Another is an ugly, peevish, middle-aged nurse secretly in love with feeble Dr. Suprugov. The doctor himself, a weak, cunning, vain, lying, frightened creature, might have come out of Chekhov...