Word: raters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was rated the British Empire's No.1 cigar consumer (three an hour for 18 hours out of every 24). Said the rater, the pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.: "What he doesn't smoke, he eats...
Before last week's nontitle fight (Sergeant Montgomery will not defend his title for the duration), Moran was a third-rater with dim prospects. In ten rounds he became a white-hope challenger for the world's postwar lightweight crown...
...industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
...weeks ago, in Baltimore, gentle Giant Simon had been licked by a third-rater named Jim Thompson. "Simple Simon," sneered the experts, and bet 4-to-1 that Louis would polish him off before the end of the fifth round...
...without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation. I wish it considered just as astronomy or chemistry is." On this bedrock basis, the world's outstanding theologians have lectured ever since. The Gifford Lectures have never been given by a second-rater, and most of the great religious writing of the last half century has been done for them...