Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still more, those on "Bereavement," which strike the present reader's ear as the best thing in the number. They are only eight lines, and it would be hardly fair to quote them. Among the business-like book reviews may be single out, perhaps, that on the "Papers" of Colonel House. It is very well balanced
...erstwhile "hero of Locarno" (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.), returned to hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...
...Boston was made Captain-General. A month later he was raised to the position of General and Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts troops. In this capacity he commanded at Bunker Hill, although he himself stayed in Cambridge at the time and detailed the leading of the troops to Colonel Prescott...
Dean Hawkes, of Columbia, Colonel Holt, of West Point, and Professor A. N. Holcombe of Harvard have been chosen as the national judges. Professor Holcombe will announce the arrangements for the examination here toward the end of this week...
Professor Pelliot comes to this country from the College de France where he has acquired a large reputation as a scholar in matters pertaining to Oriental art. He will speak again on Thursday afternoon in the Fogg Museum on "Discoveries of Colonel Koslov in Northern China...