Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
Truman, once privately critical of Lyndon Johnson, has responded to years of Johnson flattery ("No man will rank higher in history than Harry Truman"). Symingtoru is not one of Rayburn's House graduates, but he has made up for that by sedulously seeking Mr. Sam's political advice...
...rights," sponsored by Arkansas Democratic Senator John McClellan and added to the Kennedy bill midway through Senate debate on the measure as a floor amendment. In a private analysis circulated to the council members, A.F.L.-C.I.O. lawyers pointed out that "arguing against these rights [free speech, the right of rank-and-file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between federal and state law, an improper interference . . . with legitimate union activities...
Varsity pole vaulter Tom Blodgett is just six inches away from the very first rank of college vaulters after clearing 13 ft., 6 in. in the Heps. The rest of the varsity field event crew may run into trouble, although undefeated John deKiewiet could be a factor in the high jump...
...indicate that the Annex has fast been pushing to the front among our colleges for women. If, by joining the Annex to the University we can advance the cause of broader and more liberal education for women and can place that part of the college in the fore most rank of women's colleges, it is our part...