According to articles published in The New York Times, Officer Shanley was promoted in 1935, earning a third-grade detective's shield, then rose steadily until she earned the first-grade rank in 1939, at age 43.
The senior goalkeeper is one of many reasons the UC Irvine women's soccer team is off to an 8-1-2 start and has earned the program's first national ranking.
Rios is the first player since Ilie Nastase in 1973 to bypass the No. 2 rung on his way to the top, and he is the first man to earn the ranking without winning a Grand Slam tournament since Ivan Lendl in 1983.
Baylor, 13-0 for the first time in school history, earned its first national ranking since 1978 when the Lady Bears were ranked 23rd in the new Associated Press women's basketball poll yesterday.
Shirley is 14 and close to earning the rank of private first class.
The Life Star order was reversed in 1924, apparently because the five-pointed star of the Star Scout insignia could be associated with the five merit badges required to earn the rank immediately following First Class Scout.
The integrative assessment system with proposed criteria showed that green schools 5, 3, 4, 1 and 2, respectively, have earned first to fifth rank in terms of proposed criteria for green schools.
In 2007, he became just the 69th man in the history of Japan's ancient sport — and only the fourth foreigner — to earn the rank of yokozuna.
By the late 1990's, Ms. Miller was part of Mr. Weill's inner circle, a perch that earned her the ranking of the second-most-powerful woman in business behind Carleton S. Fiorina, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard.
Princeton earned a fourth-place ranking in the poll, just ahead of Brown.
It has been a watershed year for the Huskies, who defeated a ranked team for the first time when they beat South Florida on Oct. 27; earned their first national ranking a week later; and shared the Big East championship with West Virginia.
